The Superior Audiovisual Council (CSA) has defined and implemented the rules concerning the use of the rights of sports extracts by broadcasters who do not hold the rights of sports competitions.
Back to this notion of sports extracts.
The Superior Audiovisual Council (CSA) has defined and implemented the rules concerning the use of the rights of sports extracts by broadcasters who do not hold the rights of sports competitions.
Back to this notion of sports extracts.
This new regulation, applicable to news channels and current sports magazines, multidisciplinary (Stage 2,…) or not (Téléfoot,…), has been applicable since February 1, 2013. Previously, only a "moral code" existed since 2006 between broadcasters and sports institutions.
Article L. 333-7 of the Sports Code
Article L. 333-7 of the Sports Code provides that the seller or purchaser of the right to operate a sports competition " may not oppose the dissemination, by other electronic communication services to the public, of brief extracts taken free of charge from the images of the transferee service (s) and freely chosen by the service not transferee of the right of exploitation who disseminates them. These extracts are broadcast free of charge during information broadcasts. »
La Law of February 1, 2012 aimed at strengthening the ethics of sport and the rights of athletes a given to the CSA competence to fix « the conditions for disseminating short extracts provided for in this article after consultation with the French National Olympic and Sports Committee and the organizers of sports events mentioned in Article L. 331-5 »
The notion of brief extracts set by the CSA
By one deliberation of January 15, 2013 then from 1er October 2024 relating to the conditions for broadcasting short extracts from sports competitions and events other than sports of great interest to the public imposes two conditions on the broadcasting of "brief extracts from sports competitions taken free of charge":
- "the broadcast of the extracts takes place after the end of the first broadcast of the program of the service holding the rights from which these extracts are taken;
- the identification of the service holding the rights to the images taken is clearly ensured during the distribution of each extract, for a minimum period of five seconds".
The duration of broadcasting of these brief extracts must not exceed "a minute thirty seconds per antenna hour"And"three minutes per day of competition and, in the case of regular team sport competitions, per day of regular team sport competition."
These extracts can be broadcast in information programs, that is to say:
- "regular television news and news bulletins;
- multidisciplinary sports magazines or general information, at least weekly;
- (...)
For more details, do not hesitate to take note of the deliberation n ° 2014-43 of October 1st, 2014 of the Superior council of Audiovisual
