In other news: The Delhi High Court says that cricket updates go into public domain after two minutes.
In a gist, what this means is this:
- Ball by ball updates of Cricket matches are will now be delayed by 2 minutes, except in cases of key events like wickets.
- Online updates and Mobile VAS related to Cricket are permissible, as long as they dont directly reproduce audio and video feeds from Cricket Matches, and incorporate a 2 minute delay from the broadcast.
- Which events come under qua momentary news are likely to be a bone of contention between rights owners (like STAR) and other players like websites, telecom operators and VAS companies, but as long as there is a 2 minute delay, its fine to provide updates.
- There were claims that the Madras High Court judgment allowed a delay of 6-8 minutes before commercial exploitation. We were not sure of the validity of that claim, but this sets the record straight its two minutes before an event goes into public domain.  Read