Media Laws

Media Laws by advocate Puneet Chaturvedi delivers a complete, practice-oriented view of India’s media regulation across advertising, print, cinema, radio, television, and internet. Organized into five parts—Areas of Media, Media Ethics, Relevant Statutory Provisions, Landmark Judgments, and Forms/Deeds/Agreements—it blends doctrine, codes, and case law with hands-on tools. Readers find curated extracts from core enactments and rules (e.g., Press & Registration, Cinematograph, Cable TV, Working Journalists, IT Act, CrPC §95), contextualized by ethics frameworks and industry standards such as ASCI and Press Council references. The judgments section spotlights decisions on advertisement, press, cinema, broadcasting, internet, and general themes like freedom of speech, contempt, defamation, obscenity, and copyright, making the jurisprudence accessible. A practical highlight is the extensive templates library—cinema agreements (actor, director, music, editor), copyright assignments and royalty models, and even digital-signature application materials—designed to accelerate drafting and compliance. With clear classification and multi-indexing, the book supports quick look-ups for lawyers, journalists, filmmakers, broadcasters, educators, and students alike. It also gestures to comparative and international perspectives to round out the understanding where relevant.