Media boycott in the offing?
“Greed and arrogance” is the damning headline in an editorial for The Hindu which predicts a media boycott of the IPL whose administrators are making “over-the-top” demands.
ESPNcricinfo staff
25-Feb-2013
“Greed and arrogance” is the damning headline in an editorial for The Hindu which predicts a media boycott of the IPL whose administrators are making “over-the-top” demands.
Under the guise of protecting its intellectual property rights, it issued a set of guidelines for media bristling with unacceptable conditions. The most outrageous condition in the original accreditation guidelines was this clause: “For the avoidance of doubt, IPL shall be entitled to use and reproduce, free of charge, worldwide and without limit in time any and all photographs/images captured by the Accredited Party at any ground and the Accredited Party shall make the same available promptly to the IPL...at his/her cost.”
The piece goes on to list what the IPL want, commenting that this is far from likely to happen. The paper believes that in fact the only answer is a boycott and calls on the history of previous stand-offs which have only gone one way: the administrative bodies in question, be they cricket, rugby or soccer related, have had to back down to the media’s will.
Meanwhile Prem Panicker, in his blog, says the problem isn't with the terms of the negotiations but the fact that the media is negotiating at all.
In Canadian newspaper the Star, Faraz Sarwat writes that with the IPL filled to the brim with international stars there is sensory overload. At this point, the average fan would struggle to identify the team South Africa's Jacques Kallis will play for or who will open the bowling for the Delhi Daredevils. Meanwhile the ICL showed that it is a living league and there is reason to believe that there will be more players signing on, although still of the disgruntled, rejected and retired variety.