‘Copyright strikes used to extort creators’: Delhi HC asks Meta, Centre to respond

4 min readNew DelhiJul 29, 2026 03:30 AM IST Content creator Nitin Joshi. (Credit: Instagram/ji_nitinjoshi) Digital content creators are facing a new challenge on social media platforms: copyright complaints allegedly being used by third-party “rogue actors” as a tool to pressure creators into paying money to get their content restored. The issue came before the Delhi High Court on Tuesday. A bench of Justices V Kameswar Rao and Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora sought responses from Meta Platforms and the Centre on a public interest litigation filed by Noida-based full-time content creator Nitin Joshi, who has more than 1.6 million followers on Instagram.Joshi, who creates content around entrepreneurship, finance, branding, business strategy, and marketing, had on July 7 published a video titled