19 May 2025

The piracy of sports and other live events

The Copyright Section of The European Commission Recommendation of 4 May 2023 on combating online piracy of sports and other live events encourages Member States and relevant stakeholders to take effective, appropriate and proportionate measures to combat unauthorised retransmissions of such events.  

The Intellectual Property Unit (Copyright section) of the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment has been in touch to let us know that the Commission is gathering views and that a call for evidence is now open for feedback and can be accessed here

For information, the European Commission has also published a study on contractual practices affecting the transfer of copyright and related rights in the EU. 

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