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MUMBAI:
The Editors Guild of India has rejected BCCI’s (Board
of Control for Cricket in India) revised terms and conditions
for media accreditation of Indian Premier League (IPL), stating
that it had several ‘unacceptable’ conditions.
Editors
Guild of India Secretary General K.S. Sachidananda Murthy
said, “The revised terms and conditions which have been
put up on the IPL website still contain clauses which are
unacceptable to the media and would seriously affect the independence
of the editors, especially when it comes to selection and
use of photographs. The IPL’s demand that the newspapers
and news agencies must submit pictures requested by the IPL
for free and global use by the IPL is also unacceptable.”
The
Guild has objected to the “blanket prohibition on use
of the photographs taken by a newspaper or news agency which
are the exclusive property of the newspaper or news agency,
for online use or syndication.”
The
Guild has also said that the IPL cannot put a “quantitative
limit” on the number of photographs that may be uploaded
by a newspaper or news agency on its website.
The
Guild has sent a response to BCCI chairman Lalit Modi and
has circulated to all its members, to the Indian Newspaper
Society, the Sports Journalists Federation of India and other
media bodies to take appropriate action in reaction to the
unacceptable conditions. A copy of the Guild’s letter
has also been sent to BCCI president Sharad Pawar.
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