There are news that the media organizations may boycott the prestigious Indian Premier League after the two sides failed to resolve a row over digital rights.As per IPL guidelines,news agencies cannot supply any images to the websites or for any other online operation.This is resented strongly by media.The legendary Cricketer Kapil Dev even advised media to boycott IPL due to the stringent accreditation conditions.
Indian Premier League ( IPL ) is reported to have sold the media rights of the matches to a US web company for a whopping $50 million and therefore they had sticked to this approach says a media expert.Reacting strongly to this Bahubali Shah said”The accreditation terms failed to address the issues of intellectual property rights belonging to media as well as issues of press freedom,In the absence of remedial action by the Indian Premier League, members of the Indian Newspaper Society will be forced to take an adverse view on the question of coverage of IPL matches.”
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