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Editors, sports journalists flay IPL
The Editors Guild and the sports journalists' federation have rejected IPL's stringent accredition norms calling them "unacceptable".
- Press Trust of India
- Updated: April 17, 2008 06:02 PM IST
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New Delhi:
In a letter addressed to the BCCI President Sharad Pawar and IPL Chairman Lalit Modi, the Guild said, "With deep regret and dismay, we are forced to point out that there are prohibitive conditions in the terms and conditions attached with the (accreditation) form...These conditions are unprecedented and unacceptable to the Indian media, to say the least."
Both EGI and SJFI were irked by the conditions which state that the media cannot use image or photograph in any other publication even if it belongs to the same organisation.
"To say the least, this is a ridiculous claim, unheard of in the annals of free India's media tradition," EGI observed.
The IPL accreditation norm also says newspapers and news agencies cannot use still images, taken by their accredited photographers, for online editions.
"In an age when most newspapers are also available to online readers, this stipulation is extremely untenable," EGI noted.
The norms also demand that the media organisations have to upload, at their own cost, images they have obtained on the official website of the Twenty20 tournament and IPL can use these photographs without making any payment to the newspapers or news agencies.
The Editors Guild of India (EGI) and the Sports Journalists' Federation of India (SJFI) outrightly rejected the "appalling" accreditation norms put forward by the Indian Premier League (IPL) authorities. In a letter addressed to the BCCI President Sharad Pawar and IPL Chairman Lalit Modi, the Guild said, "With deep regret and dismay, we are forced to point out that there are prohibitive conditions in the terms and conditions attached with the (accreditation) form...These conditions are unprecedented and unacceptable to the Indian media, to say the least."
Both EGI and SJFI were irked by the conditions which state that the media cannot use image or photograph in any other publication even if it belongs to the same organisation.
"To say the least, this is a ridiculous claim, unheard of in the annals of free India's media tradition," EGI observed.
The IPL accreditation norm also says newspapers and news agencies cannot use still images, taken by their accredited photographers, for online editions.
"In an age when most newspapers are also available to online readers, this stipulation is extremely untenable," EGI noted.
The norms also demand that the media organisations have to upload, at their own cost, images they have obtained on the official website of the Twenty20 tournament and IPL can use these photographs without making any payment to the newspapers or news agencies.
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