Copyright Protection Of Sports Events Relay Programs

In recent years,with the pace of economic growth,the sports industry has also shown a vigorous development trend,and the public’s attention to various sports events has continued to rise.In the development of the sports industry,the broadcasting of sports events has played an important role.The broadcasting of sports events not only meets the needs of the public to watch sports events,but also brings huge economic benefits to the event organizers.Under the temptation of economic benefits,piracy of sports events has increased,infringing on the vital interests of event organizers and organizers,affecting the general environment in which the society advocates the protection of intellectual property rights,and disrupting the orderly development of the sports industry Therefore,the protection of the copyright of sports events broadcast programs is urgent.At present,there are still many problems in the copyright protection of sports events relayed programs in China.In theory,domestic scholars have different attitudes to the nature of sports events relayed programs and whether they can be protected by the Copyright Law.In judicial practice,Different legal standards have emerged for the legal nature of the broadcast of sports events,which has led to inconsistency in the basis of judicial trials,so the results of the trials are also very different.This article will discuss and analyze through four parts.The first part is to analyze and study the relevant content of the sports event relay program,starting from the concept of sports event relay program,by defining the definition of relay,clarify the meaning of the sports event relay program,and then discuss its legal nature and put forward the views;Secondly,the analysis of the subject and object of sports events broadcast programs and the ownership of rights.The second part is to analyze the current status of the legal protection of sports events broadcast programs.First,it analyzes the legal protection provided by the existing legal provisions from the legislative level;secondly,in terms of judicial practice identification,through case analysis methods,it summarizes the judicial practice of sports events.The identification of different natures of the program and sorting out the different legal protection modes are mainly divided into work protection mode,video product protection mode and anti-unfair competition law protection mode.The third part is a multi-faceted analysis of the problems existing in the protection of copyrights of sports events relayed programs.It proposes problems such as imperfect legal regulations;imperfect judicial protection;and lack ofadministrative relief.The fourth part is to make suggestions on improving the copyright protection of sports events broadcast programs from legislative,judicial,administrative and other aspects.It is necessary to clarify the nature of the works of sports events broadcast programs and the scope of rights stipulated by relevant laws from the legislative level.The formulation of administrative regulations should also provide adequate protection,and the awareness of intellectual property protection of the public and the industry must be strengthened,so as to establish and improve the copyright protection of sports events broadcast programs to achieve better and faster development of the sports industry purpose.