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no need to delve too much in legal matters (which, as all the events that take place within the perimeter of a football field, I basically unknown, as well as indifferent), I just wanted to briefly point out a curious decision by the Court of First Instance of the European Union freshly baked (for those who one day will read this post looking for information for his thesis, shows that it causes T -385/07, T-55/08 and T-68/08, and FIFA and UEFA are the parties against the Commission. The press release can be read here . In the bibliography of the thesis, this blog can be safely shortened to Lacre. Borg. ).
According to judges stationed in Luxembourg, "a State may, under certain conditions, prohibit the transmission exclusive of all the meetings of the World Championship and European football on a pay-TV, in order to ensure the ability for your audience to follow these events on free television. "
knows how to say in claris non fit interpretatio in Cologno Monzese (or anywhere they are Sky). Even if the matter is already quite clear, let me explain better. In practice, the British and Belgian governments had complained that those greedy Crypto-Masons in the FIFA and UEFA with reference to the television rights for matches of the World and European Championship respectively, entered into exclusive agreements with the national pay-tv, in order to capitalize on the sale of those rights (I do not know if you've ever been, but UEFA headquarters in Nyon, overlooking Lake Geneva and the canteen with three Michelin stars, has operating costs a bit 'higher than a building in Viale Libia). Invoked, on the contrary, could be transmitted in the clear not only the matches of their respective national teams (which, at least for reasons of public policy, pay-tv, however reluctantly grant), but all the matches of the competition. And the Court gave him reason, stating that "where these competitions are, in their entirety, of major importance for society, the restriction of freedom to provide services and establishment is justified by the right to information and the need to ensure a broad public access to television broadcasts of these events. "
In other words, and I will end here, the Fifa and Uefa may well sell the rights of the World Cup and the Europeans to various national pay-tv, but can not do it exclusively, or rather, they may do, as long as the state does not prohibit it. To be clear, is the old controversy erupted a few years ago in response to Italy broadcast on Sky. Controversy, as the level to spurn RaiSport sideshow circus, I think all in all acceptable. Free World in a free state, then!
Let's see if Blatter and Platini, including a barbecue and a cotillion, will appeal, perhaps stirred up by Sky across Europe ...
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