Cabinet approves Cinematograph (Amendment) Bill 2023

Express News Service

NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet on Wednesday authorised the Cinematograph (Amendment) Bill that proposes to introduce additional lessons for film certification and likewise brings in stricter penal provisions to forestall film piracy. The Bill is perhaps supplied throughout the Parliament throughout the upcoming session.

The objective of the Bill is to be sure that content material materials is simply not affected by piracy and safeguards the curiosity and investments of producers and filmmakers.

The Bill proposes imprisonment ranging from three months to three years and a beautiful of Rs 3-10 lakh which may lengthen to a sum of as a lot as 5 per cent of the audited gross manufacturing worth of the film, to forestall film piracy.

Under the proposed amendments pertaining to the certification of flicks beneath the ‘unrestricted public exhibition’, the Bill has launched new film certification lessons along with ‘U’ or widespread, ‘U/A 7+’, ‘U/A 13+’, and ‘U/A 16+’, along with an ‘A’ rating for content material materials restricted for viewing by solely adults.

At present, beneath the Indian Cinematograph Act, three lessons of film certification exist – unrestricted public exhibition or ‘U’, parental guidance required for children beneath 12 or ‘U/A’, and grownup films or ‘A’.

The proposed amendments allowing the sub-categorisation for film certification capabilities, look like consistent with the age-based restrictions simply currently carried out for over-the-top (OTT) content material materials suppliers beneath the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 (Intermediary Rules).

In June 2021, the federal authorities had issued a notification searching for public suggestions on the Cinematograph (Amendment) Bill 2021, proposing two extra amendments to the Cinematograph Act than these already proposed in 2019.

The objective was to make the strategy of sanctioning films for exhibition extra sensible, in tune with the modified events and curb the menace of piracy. These have been the introduction of age-based lessons for film certification and penal provisions imposed for film piracy.

Earlier in February 2019, the Government had launched the Cinematograph (Amendment) Bill, 2019 in Rajya Sabha, with the goal of curbing and punishing large-scale film piracy.

Also, the 2019 mannequin proposed prohibiting a person from using a recording system to make a replica or transmit a film, with out the written authorisation of the copyright proprietor of the film.

It aimed to kind out film piracy by along with penal provisions for unauthorised cam-cording and duplication of flicks in an exhibition facility.

However, after the parliamentary committee on IT had made a slew of modifications to the 2019 bill, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting launched its 2021 mannequin, which has now been cleared by the Union Cabinet.

NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet on Wednesday authorised the Cinematograph (Amendment) Bill that proposes to introduce additional lessons for film certification and likewise brings in stricter penal provisions to forestall film piracy. The Bill is perhaps supplied throughout the Parliament throughout the upcoming session.

The objective of the Bill is to be sure that content material materials is simply not affected by piracy and safeguards the curiosity and investments of producers and filmmakers.

The Bill proposes imprisonment ranging from three months to three years and a beautiful of Rs 3-10 lakh which may lengthen to a sum of as a lot as 5 per cent of the audited gross manufacturing worth of the film, to forestall film piracy.googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

Under the proposed amendments pertaining to the certification of flicks beneath the ‘unrestricted public exhibition’, the Bill has launched new film certification lessons along with ‘U’ or widespread, ‘U/A 7+’, ‘U/A 13+’, and ‘U/A 16+’, along with an ‘A’ rating for content material materials restricted for viewing by solely adults.

At present, beneath the Indian Cinematograph Act, three lessons of film certification exist – unrestricted public exhibition or ‘U’, parental guidance required for children beneath 12 or ‘U/A’, and grownup films or ‘A’.

The proposed amendments allowing the sub-categorisation for film certification capabilities, look like consistent with the age-based restrictions simply currently carried out for over-the-top (OTT) content material materials suppliers beneath the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 (Intermediary Rules).

In June 2021, the federal authorities had issued a notification searching for public suggestions on the Cinematograph (Amendment) Bill 2021, proposing two extra amendments to the Cinematograph Act than these already proposed in 2019.

The objective was to make the strategy of sanctioning films for exhibition extra sensible, in tune with the modified events and curb the menace of piracy. These have been the introduction of age-based lessons for film certification and penal provisions imposed for film piracy.

Earlier in February 2019, the Government had launched the Cinematograph (Amendment) Bill, 2019 in Rajya Sabha, with the goal of curbing and punishing large-scale film piracy.

Also, the 2019 mannequin proposed prohibiting a person from using a recording system to make a replica or transmit a film, with out the written authorisation of the copyright proprietor of the film.

It aimed to kind out film piracy by along with penal provisions for unauthorised cam-cording and duplication of flicks in an exhibition facility.

However, after the parliamentary committee on IT had made a slew of modifications to the 2019 bill, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting launched its 2021 mannequin, which has now been cleared by the Union Cabinet.