A teary-eyed Lionel Messi said goodbye to Barcelona after spending over 2 decades at Camp Nou. Barca sent shockwaves across the football world when announcing that they couldn’t afford to re-register the 34-year-old winner last week, and PSG have moved quickly to secure the services of the six-time Ballon d’Or winner. Messi who came to…

Introduction Sports law is not lawyer-friendly nor a familiar term for many legal practitioners in India mainly due to lack of ample opportunities and lack of awareness amongst many members of the legal fraternity. The career of a lawyer in the sports sector hasn’t emerged as a considerable option in India. There are not many…

With the accelerated participation of the Indian economy in the global sports arena, a new bill ‘National Sports Ethics Commission Bill, 2016’ was introduced in the Parliament which aims at improving the integrity of sports in India by introducing various legislative forums and mechanisms. The Geneva based specialized agency of the United Nations, World Intellectual…

On 20 November 2020, the Government of the State of Tamil Nadu in India passed an Ordinance banning online gaming stating that due to online gaming, innocent people, mainly youngsters, are being cheated, and some people have even committed suicide. The Government of the State of Tamil Nadu has thus decided a ban over online…

Introduction Sports activities have been recognized as an important financial contributor to a nation’s economy and the same is applicable in the Indian Context as well. Organized Sports in India have gone through a remarkable evolution from being a traditionally on-field activity to a commercially rich industry contributing to society in different forms. The Indian…

 Introduction Sports play an integral part of our life and culture and has become a very important feature of modern-day society. Such immense significance has motivated the educational study of sports making it the focus of several historical, geographical, philosophical inquiries. But due to the increased materialistic of sports, the profitable features of sports have…

Introduction The technological development of the country had witnessed a new type of gambling classified as “Online Gambling”. It generally refers, the use of the internet for placing a bet and earning money over the internet[i]. The users of the internet were growing at an average of more than 7,00,000 new users each day[ii]. A…

NFT (or non-fungible token), is a token that cannot be exchanged with another token. In contrast to Bitcoin, which is easily exchangeable, NFTs are unique tokens with their own set of properties. In other words, NFTs cannot be interchanged with something else. NFTs have recently popped up in the creative world and are now trending in…

Citation: 2016 SCC OnLine WIPO 376 Date: 5th May 2016. Single Judge Bench/ Panelist: Tuukka Airaksinen. PARTIES INVOLVED:- 1.) Complainant- Union des Associations Européennes de Football or commonly known as the UEFA. This Corporate body has headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. The main purpose of the company is to organize various football events all around Europe…

Introduction In the past decade or so, several online platforms have come up across the globe helping people to bring their unique ideas or aspirations to come to life by providing a medium for people to come together and raising funds. Crowdfunding is one such method of raising capital through the collective effort of friends,…