SC closes plea for arrangement with YouTube to safeguard copyright of live-streamed proceedings

The Supreme Court on Monday said it has started “action” and disposed of a plea moved by former RSS ideologue KN Govindacharya, seeking a direction for a special arrangement with YouTube to safeguard the copyright of its live-streamed proceedings in accordance with a 2018 judgment.

A bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justices PS Narasimha and JB Pardiwala said the top court has already started working on evolving a mechanism to address the issue raised in the petition.

“We have started working. You can give suggestions to the secretary general (of the Supreme Court),” the bench told lawyer Virag Gupta, who appeared in the matter on behalf of Govindacharya, while disposing of the plea.