Sports broadcast rights

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Sports broadcast rights are the rights to broadcast sports events.

Legal foundations

In jurisprudence it is examined and disputed in court whether and to what extent protection of intellectual property , ancillary services and house rules of the organizer are fundamentally and in individual cases affected when sports events are broadcast.

The legal basis for sports broadcasting rights is provided by § 2, § 81 UrhG , fairness regulations § 3, § 4 No. 9 UWG, the general tort law of the BGB (§§ 823, Paragraph 1, 1004), the personal rights of athletes regulated in the KUG .

Procedure and funding

Sports broadcasting rights are sold by the organizers to the highest bidder broadcaster in an auction process .

Suspected cartel formation

Before April 12, 2018, the EU Commission had several companies in various EU countries searched on suspicion of antitrust violations in the sports broadcasting business. The company Fox Network Group explained to cooperate with the authorities.

literature

  • Kirsten Stöver: Sports broadcast rights in professional and amateur football . Regensburg 2010. (Law of the information society). ISBN 978-3-64310881-4 .
  • Jens Hahne: Broadcasting Rights in Sports . A thesis at the Braunschweig / Wolfenbüttel University of Applied Sciences. Munich 2006, GRIN Verlag , ISBN 978-3-638-58667-2 . 25 pp.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Commentary by Stephan Pötters, Sebastian Diehl. 2011.
  2. ↑ Stöver 2010. pp. 144–164.
  3. ↑ EU Commission has sports rights dealers searched orf.at, April 11, 2018, accessed April 11, 2018.

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