The Indian Super League, a football league that is a joint venture between the IMG-Reliance Industries joint venture and Star India, has some fairly detailed guidelines on what the media can and cannot do while reporting on the sports event. It's no co-incidence that Star India is currently fighting a court case in the Supreme Court of India, to prevent publishing of live scorecards and ball by ball commentary on the Internet. (Our take on potential impact of "Hot News" on media freedom here) View the media accreditation guidelines here. Restrictions on live coverage - No live text updates: While the Indian Super League is allowing digital publications to cover the event (1 reporter per "recognised digital media group"), the guidelines make it clear that for the "Written Press", no live second-by-second and/or minute-by-minute (or similar) scoring service using data or text may be transmitted from the Venue. Apart from this, text may include scores, but must "not solely comprise Match scores and/or Club and/or individual statistics." These restrictions are applicable to Print media and "Recognised" news agencies, for each of which. 4 reporters and 2 photographers per regional edition are allowed (no more than 2 reporters and 2 photographers per regional edition at any event at any time). - No live radio updates: "Non-Rights Holding Radio Broadcasters" are also not allowed to do more than two minutes of verbal updates/reports, and these cannot be live either. By "Live", the ISL refers to "the period from the kick off to the final whistle of…
