The law aimed at democratizing sport in France was adopted by the National Assembly on February 24, 2022. The text allows professional leagues to create a commercial company for the management and marketing of the rights to exploit the sporting events they organize

For the Tokyo 2020 Games, the Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee has established the fundamental principles allowing athletes to exploit their sports images or performances. In France, the implementation of these principles is the responsibility of the French National Olympic Sports Committee.

During the Tokyo Olympics, Olympic athletes participating in the Games can now, thanks to an amendment to Article 40 of the Olympic Charter, use, under certain conditions, their names, images or sports performances for advertising purposes.

The French National Olympic and Sporting Committee (CNOSF) has authorized (in application of rule 40 of the Olympic Charter) the athletes to promote their sponsors and partners and the sponsors and partners to use the image of the participants during the Games period. Tokyo Olympics 2020

Grand Symposium: the lawyer in sport. Cabinet BERTRAND is a partner of the 4th Assises du Droit du Sport and will lead a practical workshop on the theme The status of the sports trainer.

A company which sells tickets for matches in particular for the French football team when it does not have the authorization of the Federation which enjoys the monopoly of operating these matches on the national territory is a fault incurring tort liability

A bill aimed at preserving the ethics of sport, strengthening the regulation and transparency of professional sport and improving the competitiveness of clubs has just been tabled in the Senate on September 12, 2016 (report of April 19, 2016 by the Great Professional Sport Conference)

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 amendment proposed in October 2011 by deputies aiming to create a tax on player transfers, has brought back to light the so-called "Buffet tax", named after the former Minister of Sports at the origin of this contribution.