An Illinois Senate panel voted this week to back a bill that bans restrictions on news photographers at high school tournaments.
The Senate Education Committee voted 8-1 in favor of a bill to ban the Illinois High School Association from putting restrictions on the resale of news pictures taken at the state’s 35 high school championship sporting events, speech, and debate events.
IHSA has contended that they have a right to contract with a private photography firm and because they bear the right of organizing the events, newspapers do not have the right to make a profit reselling photographs from their events.
