No person/entity (including print and electronic media, and social media platforms) other than an authorised person/entity shall record, share and/or disseminate live streamed Proceedings or Archival Data. This provision shall also apply to all messaging applications. Any person/entity acting contrary to this provision will be prosecuted as per law. The Court shall have the exclusive copyright in the Recordings and Archival Data. Any unauthorised usage of the live stream will be punishable as an offence under the Indian Copyright Act, 1957, Information Technology Act, 2000, and other provisions of law, including the law of Contempt.
Any party/ litigant-in-person accessing the live stream will be bound by these Rules.
The live stream shall not, without the prior written authorisation of the Court, be reproduced, transmitted, uploaded, posted, modified, published, or re-published in any form.
The use of authorised recordings in their original form may be permitted by the Court, inter-alia to disseminate news and for training, academic and educational purposes. Authorised recordings handed over for the aforesaid purposes shall not be further edited or processed. Such Recordings will not be used for commercial, promotional purposes or advertising in any form.
No person shall use a Recording Device for recording or for transcribing the proceedings, other than those authorised by the Court.
The High Court for the State of Telangana is not responsible for reproduction, manipulation or any kind of interception to the contents of the Live Streaming by any person/organization/media, etc.,.
The live streamed feed / videos of the court proceedings are not to be considered as part of the case or court record for the purpose of reliance in any proceeding of any nature before any Court of Law.
