Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 9 October 2024

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media

Detailed Scrutiny of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion

1:00 pm

Mr. Dermot Horan:

We have the broadcasting rights but we do not own the underlying rights. The underlying rights are owned by the sports organisations. We have the right to show the all-Ireland football final, repeat it and show it on “Reeling in the Years”. That relates to the broadcasting rights but the intellectual property is actually owned by the sports organisations. That would be true for the Olympic Games and the FIFA World Cup. It is not true for Irish sports; it is also true for international sports.

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