Theoretical Reflections on and Institutional Reconstruction of Sports Event Broadcasting Right

The legislation has long not clearly stipulated the broadcasting right of sports event, and the academic circle has the misinterpreation as well, which leads to the failure of understanding its nature.From the perspective of interpretation, sports event broadcasting right is only the right of sports event organizers to broadcast the sports live, which is essentially the interest from the tort law.But on the part of legislation, sports event broadcasting right should be the exclusive property right owned by sports event organizers.The behaviors they can control include not only the live broadcast of sports event, but the dissemination of audio-visual results based on the sports events.Therefore, sports event rights system should be reconstructed.That is, legislation should confirm the legal nature of sports event broadcasting right and the right content, which should make it clear that sports event organizers possess the right to lawsuit for any theft behaviors as long as they shall enjoy the rights of sports event as the base to form an audio-visual product.