IPL requests Google to remove content
IPL requests Google to remove content
New Delhi: Google has said it has received four content censorship requests this month from the Indian Premier League, the administrative body of the Twenty20 cricket tournament.
A total of five complaints were received in 2010 about certain websites carrying “illegal retransmission of the authorised feed, copyrighted content for which IPL is the owner", according to Google.
Out of the five, four complaints were made this month while one was made in March.
Interestingly, Google recently signed an agreement with IPL, wherein rights for live web coverage of matches have been given to YouTube, part of the Internet major.
Google on Tuesday had named India at the third place among a list of nations from which it received maximum requests for censoring information.
The list, which was based on requests for removal of information made to Google between 1 July and 31 December 2009.
The complaints from the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), which owns IPL, have been listed on the website chillingeffects.org, a project run by the US-based Berkman Center for Internet and Society, that tracks online restrictions on speech.
Last year, the BCCI had registered three complaints related to IPL, with Google.
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