The matter of broadcasting rights has deserved the attention of Portuguese legal scholars. However, such writings tend to focus more on competition matters arising from the collective selling of rights (the rule almost everywhere but in Portugal), rather than on the subject of the property of the rights.

This being the case, and considering the Portuguese idiosyncrasy of individual selling of broadcasting rights, we found it rather more interesting to focus on questions  upstream from competition difficulties.[1]

We shall therefore start by briefly going into how professional football is organized in Portugal and pointing out the basic rules set out in the applicable laws and sporting  regulations and then to outline the rules that specifically apply to broadcasting rights.

This will be followed by a description of the competing legal doctrines...

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