Copyright In Sports Essay

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Sports being part of everyone’s life has been playing an influential part in every aspect of our society. Sports earlier was limited only to the leisure activity or to the physical activities carried on by the individuals to pass their time and keep themselves fit. But in today’s time sports is not limited only for entertainment and health purposes but has been extended for commercial activities, thereby being considered as a big source of earning income by grabbing business opportunities in the area of sports. Various sports teams are organized and on their formation some special recognition is required. Thus, they are recognized or differentiated from other teams by giving specific names to them. Further for giving identification different and catchy taglines along with logos are created. Apart from entertainment purpose on the other end of being a big business opportunity many sportsmen such as cricketers enter into advertisements and their associations enter into …show more content…

They are different from patents as they do not protect the processes through which the end result is achieved. Right to copy or publish a work and right to be listed as its author are considered as the economic and moral rights and thus are included in copyrights. Many sport events are conducted like car racing events, events related to football sport, cricket and other various tournaments and thus such artistic works which are a part of sports events are protected by the crucial role played by copyright laws. Subject matter of copyright include artwork in promotions, logos, also the online games etc. No mandatory rule of registering the copyright exists. But in recent times the scenario has changed, now the registration is must and in many cases it has been laid down by the courts that statutory remedies can be availed only when the owner registers his copyright under the

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