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Threat to global coverage

BRISBANE: International news agencies have said that there will be no coverage of the first Test between Australia and Sri Lanka because of a dispute with Cricket Australia (CA) over terms and conditions required for media accreditation.

Dave Tomlin, the associate general counsel for news for The Associated Press (AP), said that following a conference call on Tuesday, each of the news agencies — AP, Reuters and Agence France-Presse (AFP) — agreed that they would immediately advice their clients and subscribers that they plan no coverage of the first Test which begins on Thursday.

Tomlin said among the main issues are CA’s insistence that agencies pay it for the right to licence photos of CA events to editorial users, rights to distribute news and images from CA events to online news publishers, and the assertion by CA of an intellectual property interest in stories and images produced by journalists at CA events.

“We want very much to cover CA, and were still hoping that things will work out, Tomlin said. “But CA is making demands it would be wrong for us to give in to.” — AP

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