This document summarizes key broadcasting rights deals for various football competitions between 2007-2012. It provides the competition, time period, monetary value of the deals, and details on which broadcasters (e.g. Sky, ITV, BBC) purchased the rights. The largest deals were for the FA Premier League between 2007-2010 valued at $1.706 billion sold to Sky and Setanta, and between 2010-2013 valued at $1.782 billion sold to Sky and Setanta. Deals also included rights for the UEFA Champions League, FA Cup, Carling Cup, and Coca-Cola Championship matches.

1. SEMINAR ON
Rights of Performers and Broadcasters
Presented by
Mohammed Inzamamuddin
M.Sc. 3rd Semester Environmental Science
Session 2015-2017
Department of Environmental Science
University Teaching Department
Sarguja Vishwavidyalaya
COURSE TITLE:INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY RIGHTS, HUMAN RIGHTS &
ENVIRONMENT: BASICS
COURSE CODE: ENV S02
COURSE TYPE: OSC

2. VALUE OF RECENT FOOTBALL DEALS
Competition Period Value ($millions) Details
Champions League 2009 – 2012 405 Sky: £240m
ITV: £165m
FA Premier League 2007 – 2010 1,706 Sky: £1,314m; Setanta: £392m
FA Premier League 2010 – 2013 1,782 Sky: £1,623m; Setanta: £159m
FA Cup
(+ England matches)
2008 – 2012 425 ITV: England home internationals,
England away friendlies, FA Women’s Cup
Final;
Setanta: England home friendlies and
away internationals, England women’s
internationals, England U21 matches,
Community Shield, Youth Cup, FA Trophy,
FA
Vase
N.B. Breakdown of price paid not known
Carling Cup
(+ Coca-Cola
Championship)
2009 – 2012 264 BBC: 10 Championship matches, Carling
Cup both legs of both semi-finals and final;
Sky: 65 Championship matches and all
play-offs,
Carling Cup – 2 matches from each round,
both legs of both semi-finals and final.
Broadcasting Rights

3. Rights of Performers

4. REFERENCES
 Krishnadas Rajagopal, Olympics Telecast: Prasar Bharati
goes to Court, “THE INDIAN EXPRESS”, Aug.23,2008
 Divyanshu Sehgal and Siddharth Mathur, “ Rights and
Duties of Broadcasting Organizations: Analysis of the
WIPO Treaty on the Protection of Broadcasting
Organizations”,Journal of Intellectual Property Rights,
Vol.16,September 2011, pp. 402-408.
 Zakir Thomas, “Overview of Changes to the Indian
Copyright Law”, Journal of Intellectual Property
Rights,Vol. 17, July 2012, pp. 324-334