Supreme Court of India

Union of India v. Board of Control for Cricket in India & Ors.

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Reported as [2017] 7 S.C.R. 483
Bench Ranjan Gogoi J.
Decided 22 August 2017

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What the Court ordered

For the aforesaid reasons, all the appeals will have to fail.

Judgment, page 18

From the headnote

Sports - Cricket - Telecasting/Broadcasting - Live feed of a cricket match or other sporting events of national importance - Retelecast of the signals shared by respondent no.3 and 4 with Prasar Bharati by Cable operators - Held: Under s.3 of the Sports Act, 2007, the live feed received by Prasar Bharati from content rights owners or holders is only for the purpose of re-transmission of the said signals on its own terrestrial and DTH networks and not to Cable Operators so as to enable the Cable TV operators to reach such consumers who have already subscribed to a cable network - Sports

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