SOME ASPECTS OF PROTECTION OF PERSONAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOM OF CONTRACTING ATHLETES IN SERBIAN LAW
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.61837/mbuir030125065jKeywords:
sponsorship contract, personal rights, freedom of contracting, sports rules, abuse of a dominant positionAbstract
In addition to the income that they earn by playing sports (salaries), athletes also have the opportunity to gain additional income, which they earn by commercially exploiting their personality rights, as a rule, by concluding sponsorship contracts. Sports rules of sports federations (rules contained in the statutes and rulebooks of sports federations) that athletes must follow or they would be exempted from organized sports events, have interposed between them and the maximum realization of the possibility of additional earnings. The basic hypothesis of the paper is that, with their sports rules, sports federations impose significant restrictions on athletes in terms of concluding sponsorship contracts, thus restricting their freedom of contracting. The paper aims to answer the question, whether such restrictions on the freedom of contracting of athletes are allowed in Serbian law and, if so, under what conditions. The paper employs scientific methods such as deduction and comparative analysis.
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