At first glance, the restrictions seem draconian and unreasonable.
The conditions include the IPL's right to use all pictures taken at its grounds for free and without restrictions; the commitment by news organisations to upload on the IPL site, within 24 hours, all images taken at the ground; and the restriction of web portals' access to images without prior permission from the IPL.
Hidden in the legalese is a simple fact that IPL is only asking for access to images free for its website and restricting access to other web portals without permission.
It is also pertinent to note that the media barring SONY, the television broadcaster, need not pay single paisa as royalty.
Then why are the news networks crying foul and threatening a boycott?
2 comments:
THIS IS ONLY ONE FACE OF IPL SHOW THAT U GET TO SEE NOW . U WILL ENJOY MORE FUN WHEN THE FRANCHISES PUT THEIR OWN CLAUSES IN THEIR AGREEMENT WITH THEIR WARDS. I AM WAITING FOR IT.
The fundamental problem here is that as a policy most newspapers will only publish a photo if it is totally exclusive to them so that an another paper does not carry the same... hence the ruckus I suppose.
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