Research On The Copyright Protection Of Sports Events Program

Sports events are the core of the sports industry,and the protection of the copyright laws of sports events program plays an important role in the development of the sports industry.However,the cases of copyright infringement disputes have occurred in various places.Through the collection of the relevant judgments made by the current court and the statistics on the case,the court decision and the verdict,the two major problems in the judicial protection of the sports events program in our country are as follows: the legal attributes of the sports events program are not clear and found that the defendant’s infringement based on the existence of a large difference.We can see that Copyright Law in China for the protection of sports events program slightly inadequate.Exploring the reason from the basic theory of copyright protection of sports events program: on the source of the rights of the sporting event,denying the validity of the statute to create a civil right,affirming the role of the contract between the event organizer and the sports events program producer;in terms of legal attributes of sports events,combined with the different requirements of the common law system and the civil law system,the reason for the controversy between theoretical and practical circles in our country is that the existing copyright law can not be clearly identified;in the sports rights broadcast rights infringement,pointed out that the network real-time broadcast of this infringement can not be protected by existing copyright law.Finally,the following recommendations are made in this paper: creating a neighboring right in China’s copyright law to solve the problem of the distribution of interests between the organizers of the event organizers and the producers of sports events program;Combined with foreign regulations on audiovisual works and changes in the draft revision of China’s copyright law,putting forward the view that the sporting event program is audiovisual works;it is not necessary to expand the information network dissemination right that can only be used to control the interactive communication behavior,but also to expand the scope of the broadcast organization’s right,so that the broadcasting organization includes the networkbroadcasting organization,and the way of transmission includes wired and networked forms.Through the above suggestions,with a view to the sports events program in China in the field of copyright protection has implications.