GUIDELINES FOR SYNDICATION ARRANGEMENTS BY NEWSPAPERS

         

            All registered newspapers (Indian publications) are authorised to make syndication arrangements for procuring material including photographs, cartoons, crossword puzzles, articles and features from foreign publications (content provider) under automatic approval route subject to the following conditions: -

i.                    The total material so procured and actually printed in an issue of the Indian publication does not exceed 7.5% of the total printed area of that issue,

ii.                 The syndicated material does not include full copy of the editorial page or the front page of the foreign publication,

iii.               The mast head of the content provider publication is not utilised in the Indian publication,

iv.                Credit to the content provider is necessarily given prominently as a byline in the Indian publication,

v.                   The material procured under syndication arrangement is such that has already been published in the content provider publication. 

2.         Any case involving relaxation of any of the above conditions would require to be examined by the Ministry of I&B, and, before any material is actually procured under syndication arrangement beyond the above noted conditions, the Indian publication should have applied for and obtained prior approval of the Ministry of I&B. 

3.           These guidelines would not apply to the cases where Ministry of I&B has issued its approval/no objection certificate for publication of Indian edition of a foreign magazine/journal/newspaper.

 

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