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Image rights of athletes in Latvia: constitutional law rules
Protecting Your Image: Constitutional Privacy Rights for Celebrities and Athletes The Right to Publicity: A Celebrity’s Shield In today’s digital age, where personal information is readily accessible and shared, celebrities and athletes face unique challenges in protecting their image and likeness. One powerful tool they possess is the right to publicity, a legal right that…
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Young athlete: professional sportsman or consumer? (EUCJ GA opinion in C-365/23)
A contractual term requiring a young sportsman to transfer part of his income if he becomes a professional athlete may potentially be unfair, provided that it is shown that that term creates a significant imbalance in the rights and obligations arising under the contract, according to Advocate General Rantos. High profile basketball player concerned Advocate…
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Riga municipality gives EUR 200’000 to VEF Riga basketball club in 2024 – deservedly?
Rich do as they please – Riga municipality each year assigns significant amounts of public money to different sporting events, large part of that has been given to the Basketball Club VEF Riga, in clear breach of municipality’s own regulations. Key Criteria Riga municipality considers several criteria when assessing the public money, among them: VEF…
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Valmiera FC refused UEFA licence due to tax debts
The Valmiera football club had qualified on sporting merits for the 2024/2025 UEFA Conference league through finishing 4th in the Latvian football Premier League (Virslīga), but has lost the opportunity through unfortunate development of events. The Valmiera’s club has been in financial trouble during 2024 and was refused the licence for justified reasons. In their…
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Ban in the FK Liepāja footballer’s racism case: term reduced
It was announced that Latvian Football Federation disqualified a footballer earlier in 2024 for an ethical misconduct. Apparently, the player had submitted an appeal (or a simple request?) against the 3-month ban, which was satisfied, to reduce the forced idle time to 2 months. The news were reported by LFF, with a significant note in…
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Latvian-Estonian Basketball League season 2024 finish
The Latvian – Estonian basketball league project’s 4th season has ended with the victory of “Prometey”. For the first time in 4 years a game was declared “technical loss” to a team not appearing in a scheduled game, and the Final was played without any Latvian club. Unless you consider Prometey to represent Latvia, since…
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Merger of two major Latvian sports bodies
Latvian sport is governed in a multi-level structure: a) the level of sports federations – all sports b) the olympic movement – only sports recognised by IOC qualify Two “towers” for the Latvian sports In Latvia both of the levels (a&b) belong to a different organisaion: a – to the Latvian Sports federations council (called…
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First racism related disqualification in 2024 in Latvian football
A 3 month ban to a footballer who apparently had engaged in unethical actions – after a local league player had sent racially offensive messages to a basketball player and the matter became public, Latvian Football federation has decided to sanction the footballer for ethical matter. Latvian Federation bans footballer for unethical statements The original…
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First post
This is the first post of Legalsport.eu to mark the site’s opening. Our experience goes a lot deeper into the past 10+ years, building on the good ideas that we will bring in here in the Legal matters in sports!