Media

Is Fair Use the Knight in Shining Armour?

Over-reliance on the defence of fair use/dealing might not be warranted when there are other internal checks and balances within India’s copyright law. Blind faith in fair use has the unfortunate…
▶24-Jun-2025
Bharathwaj Ramakrishnan

ANI vs YouTubers: The 'Fair Use' Defence

Indian law does allows for fair use of copyrighted material. But it’s not as simple as the amount of material used.
▶10-Jun-2025
Vineet Bhalla

Making Sense of the Western Media Bias in the Reporting on Gaza

A history of pro-Israel reporting, a natural bias towards a nation that shares much of the western civilisational values, and the presence of a powerful lobby that looks for real and imaginary signs…
▶04-Dec-2023
Kaushik Jayaram

Designed to Paralyse

A government that does not see value in independent media has brought in rules for digital news publications, which, in the garb of introducing self-regulation, are designed to stifle vibrant and…
▶24-Mar-2021
Sukumar Muralidharan

Covid-19 Accelerates the Transformation of India's Newspaper Industry

India’s newspapers grew by relying on advertising, a dependence that began to unravel before the pandemic struck. Dailies have shut down and journalists have lost jobs. To revive their fortunes, they…
▶13-Jan-2021
Sevanti Ninan

How India's Media Landscape Changed Over Five Years (Video)

A video adaptation of Sevanti Ninan's article "How India's Media Landscape Changed Over Five Years" (30 August, 2019). Courtesy "Free Speech Collective".
▶16-Nov-2019
Sevanti Ninan

How India's Media Landscape Changed Over Five Years

Mainstream media was delegitimised over the past five years by the BJP government. Co-option and self-censorship by this media have followed. Alongside, the use of social media has grown hugely,…
▶06-Jun-2019
Sevanti Ninan