美国体育赛事转播反垄断审查豁免规则及其对中国的启示

Exemption Rules of Sports Broadcasting Antitrust Review in America and Their Reference to China

美国的体育赛事发展主要是因为两大政策:一个是美国《体育赛事转播法》,其给予赛事转播权协议反垄断审查豁免;另一政策就是体育赛事转播的禁止转播规则。美国司法实践一直在限制《体育赛事转播法》的适用范围,同时立法者和学者们也希望废除禁止转播规则的适用。在中国当前体育职业赛事发展的重要时期,借鉴《体育赛事转播法》的有益经验可以促使体育职业赛事进入一个新的发展阶段。因此我国需要借鉴美国对于赛事转播协议的豁免事项,促使体育赛事联盟结构得到稳定。而对于禁转规则,因其与我国现实状况不相符合,所以不应效仿。

Two policies promote sport event development in America. One isSports Broadcasting Act of 1961 which exempts the antitrust review of broadcastingagreement. The other is the block-out rule. In American legal practice, somelegislators and scholars hope to limit the exemption scope of broadcasting agreementantitrust review and abandon the block-out rule. It is the significant time for Chineseprofession sports development, and the American experience about the policiesmentioned above affords us lessons that merit attention. Therefore, we are supposedto take a lesson from Sports Broadcasting Act instead of block-out rule as it does notmatch our current situation.