New Delhi: The Indian Premier League (IPL) has revised the 13-page terms and conditions for media accreditations which had come under debate last week.
IPL Chairman and Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) vice-president Lalit Modi agreed to relax rules to benefit the print media after discussing the matter with the Sports Journalists' Federation of India (SJFI) and sports editors of mainline dailies on Monday.
Last week, the IPL had announced the media guidelines for accreditation, which a large section of the media houses found unacceptable.
The SJFI, on behalf of sports journalists and photographers, requested the BCCI President Sharad Pawar to resolve the contentious clauses.
"I held a meeting with representatives of different media organisations and discussed the contentious issues. New media accreditation guidelines will be issued soon," Modi said on Tuesday in Mumbai.
He also said that the date for submitting accreditation forms would be extended beyond the present April 8 deadline.
The biggest bones of contention were the conditions that the media cannot use images or photographs in any other publications even if it belongs to the same organisation.
The norms also said newspapers and news agencies cannot use still images, taken by their accredited photographers for their websites and 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.
However, there is no good news for the websites, as they will not be allowed to cover the IPL matches.
According to the guidelines, websites can only cover pre-match and post-match press conferences, but their reporters and photographers will not be allowed into the press box during the matches.
The websites will not be allowed to upload any pictures of the tournament with even the news agencies banned from selling pictures to websites.
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