The purpose of the present paper is to focus solely on the issues regarding access to federative jurisdiction,[1] FIFA in the first instance, and the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on appeal, to understand matters pertaining to image rights in the scope of employment relations.
Introduction
It has been stated that image rights are widely defined, eluding narrowness and projecting the concept on a broad sense of personal marketing brand.[2] Absent a definition of image rights in FIFA Regulations and in FIFA/CAS jurisprudence, it is practical to turn to the conceptual approach given by the High Court of England and Wales in the infamous case
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