Prasar Bharti to take private channels to court

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Prasar Bharti plans to take legal action against private news and sports 
channels that are illegally airing Doordarshan's cricket footage of the on-
going TVS Cup Tri-series, through various sponsored programmes. As per 
industry practice, channels are allowed to air up to 30 seconds of footage 
after giving  due acknowledgement. But any coverage more than 30 seconds 
without permission leads to copyright infringement. Sarma contented that 
many private channels were using as much as 40 minutes of cricket coverage 
with some of them being sponsored programmes. 


Source:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?
msid=270364