This article by Marios Papaloukas starts by claiming that sports were always considered to perform a State function amongst other functions. When sports authorities were emancipated from the State they started behaving like a common business. Nowadays sports have evolved from a social activity...

This article by Marios Papaloukas, claims that for the last thirty years the athletic community as well as academics are dealing with an effort by the European Court of Justice to influence sport law and the rule-making power of member states in the area of sports. In the present paper the...

This article by Marios Papaloukas focuses in the fact that sport entities have always tried to protect their autonomy from interventions. This status has been seriously put into question by the authorities of the European Communities and especially by the Court of the European Communities. One...

The notion of monopoly in the sports sector is a very common one. In fact it is no secret that with very few exceptions all athletic championships are organized monopolistically in the sense that there is only one international federation worldwide, only one national federation in every country...

This book contains all case law as well as a theoretical approach to all major issues related to the sports market. More specifically it covers issues such as the emerging independent sports legal order, the principle of exemption of sports formulated by the CJEU, sports betting, as well as...

Sports broadcasting is among the most popular of television programmes. The viewers watching such programmes are usually the ones with the highest purchase capacity, therefore the audience is of particular interest to publicists, as it is considered a very special audience not easily attracted...

As early as the seventies the sports authorities in Europe started a campaign in order to achieve the recognition of a sporting exemption from the European rules. In their view the whole of the sporting activity containing also sports rules issued by them should not be subject to the European...

In the context of what is called the new media environment, the term “sports image” is used meaning the athlete’s right to their own image as well as the right to exploit commercially a sports event. Under Greek law sports events are not recognised as original intellectual products, so...

In the early nineties, when the “Bosman” case arose, sports authorities were faced with a great challenge. The widely accepted autonomy and self-regulation of the sports sector was at stake. If sports were to be treated as just another economic activity without exceptions and if its specific...