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Opinion of the Advocate General threatens the revenues of sports rights holders

  • Bird & Bird
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • February 4 2011

The Advocate General delivered an Opinion yesterday in a test case on the ability of sports rights holders under EU law to limit the rights granted to satellite broadcasters to a given national territory

Caution for competition defence

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • United Kingdom
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  • March 31 2008

In The Football Association Premier League Limited & Others v LCD Publishing Limited 2007 EWHC 3171 (CH), the English High Court considered an application to strike out a restraint of trade and competition defence

Decryption of Premier League matches with imported decoder cards: is there a competition defence?

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • United Kingdom
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  • February 28 2008

The matter in dispute in Football Association v QC Leisure & Others 2008 EWHC 44 (Ch) was the possible anticompetitive effect of contracts between the Football Association (FA) and foreign broadcasters for the broadcasting of Premier League football matches