The Industry of Sports contains:

• Visual and Auditory content (matches)
• Individuals wearing uniforms containing the logos of their teams and clubs (the players)
• Accompanying events (press conferences and analytical programs)
• Digital rights and social media content

All these fields can be sold the rights to commercial companies to generate revenues that contribute significantly to the development of the sports industry.

Defining Intellectual Property Rights.

Intellectual property rights can be defined as those rights that respond to immaterial objects and cannot be assessed by money such as ideas and inventions resulting from the human mind. Such rights include the right of the writer or author to his writings, the inventor’s right to his inventions, and the right of the factory owner to the industrial fees and models of his products that distinguish his products.

Intellectual property is also defined as rights authorized by law for an individual over something intangible that is the result and product of brainstorming.

Or it’s defined as all that is proven to be a product of intellectual or mental brainstorming of an individual, whatever the type and nature of the resulting ideas.

Intellectual property protection-concept and content:

The term intellectual property means a special type of property, and one of the most important characteristics of intellectual property is that the owner may use it however he wants and that someone else can’t legally use his property without permission from him.

Why Intellectual Property Rights in Sports should be protected?

The Intellectual Property Rights of the fields of the sports industry must be preserved to ensure the best revenue for the sports industry in general.

Revenues from selling intellectual property rights is the world’s most important financial and commercial means in the sports industry.

Revenues from selling intellectual property rights is the world’s most important financial and commercial means in the sports industry.

All of the above will benefit the sports industry and help to develop this industry properly in line with the global systems in place.

Penalties:

Kuwait’s law punishes infringement of intellectual property rights and authors’ rights by imprisonment, which may amount to up to two years, in addition to a fine, closure and confiscation. The penalty is aggravated in the event of repeated acts of abuse.

What are the most important example of Intellectual Property Rights in the field of Sports?

Televised rights:

Live streaming of sports events, meetings, interviews and reports.

Media rights:

Live broadcast of press conferences, filming of trainings and meetings within the camps of the national teams.

Archival Rights:

Rebroadcast of recorded television content

Highlight rights

Right to broadcasting summaries and highlights of sports events

Digital rights:

The rights of digital distribution of the rights owned by the Union via the net and filmed videos, short clips, live video broadcast rights on the phone, as well as videos on demand, etc…