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Editors Guild rejects IPL’s revised terms

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CHENNAI: The Editors Guild of India has rejected the Indian Premier League’s revised terms and conditions for media accreditation to cover the forthcoming DLF-IPL Twenty20 matches.

In a press release issued on Wednesday, K.S. Sachidananda Murthy, Secretary General of the Guild, 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 written to IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi urging him to take appropriate action. It 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.

A copy of the Guild’s letter to Mr. Modi has been sent to Sharad Pawar, President, BCCI.

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