Court No 16

Prohibitions and Restrictions on usage of the Recording or Live Stream as per THE GAUHATI HIGH COURT (LIVE STREAMING AND RECORDING OF COURT PROCEEDINGS) RULES, 2022 (Notification no. 70, Dated Guwahati The 17th September, 2022) 1. 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 Ac., 1957; the Information Technology Act, 2000; and other provisions of law, including the law of contempt. 2. Any party / litigant-in-person accessing the live stream will be bound by these Rules. 3. The live stream shall not, without the prior written authorization of the Court, be reproduced, transmitted, uploaded, posted, modified, published or re-published in any form. 4. 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. 5. No person shall use a recording device for recording or for transcribing the proceedings, other than those authorized by the Court.