Sports Broadcasting Rights and Media Contracts in Turkey sit at the intersection of sports regulation, media law, contract law, competition law, and digital-platform regulation. In practice, the most detailed and visible framework exists in football, where the Turkish Football Federation (TFF) has express statutory and regulatory powers over match-broadcasting rights, central marketing, and licensing. But […]
Trademark Issues in Media, Entertainment, and Brand Collaborations in Turkey have become more important as films, series, streaming platforms, music projects, influencer campaigns, live events, merchandising, sponsorships, and co-branded activations increasingly depend on brand value. In Türkiye, trademarks are governed mainly by Law No. 6769 on Industrial Property, administered by the Turkish Patent and Trademark […]
Legal protection of screenplays, formats, and creative concepts in Turkey is one of the most misunderstood areas of Turkish intellectual property law. The reason is simple: Turkish law clearly protects works, authors, adaptations, and economic rights, but it does not protect every idea simply because the idea is commercially valuable or creatively promising. In practice, […]
Cinema Law in Turkey: Classification, Evaluation, and State Support is one of the most important areas of Turkish media and cultural law because the Turkish cinema regime does not deal only with censorship-style questions or production permits. It creates a complete legal framework for how films are classified, how they are evaluated before commercial circulation […]
Censorship, content control, and freedom of expression in Turkey cannot be understood through a single statute or a single institution. In Turkish law, the relevant framework is built from the Constitution, the Press Law No. 5187, Law No. 6112 on radio, television, and on-demand media services, Law No. 5651 on internet publications, the Personal Data […]
Social media platforms and liability rules in Turkey are governed by a layered legal framework rather than a single platform law. The core statute is Law No. 5651 on the Regulation of Publications on the Internet and Combating Crimes Committed Through Such Publications, but the legal analysis also interacts with the Turkish Constitution, the Personal […]
Content removal and access blocking under Turkish internet law sits at the center of the country’s digital-regulation framework. In Türkiye, the main statute is Law No. 5651 on the Regulation of Publications on the Internet and Combating Crimes Committed Through Such Publications. Its stated purpose is to regulate the obligations and responsibilities of content providers, […]
Internet News Sites and Their Legal Obligations in Turkey is now a central subject in Turkish media law because online news publishing is no longer treated as a legally informal activity. Since the 2022 amendments to the Press Law, internet news sites have been expressly brought into the formal press-law framework. That change matters for […]
Press freedom and legal restrictions in Turkish media law must be understood as part of a constitutional balance rather than as a single-rule subject. In Türkiye, the legal order protects freedom of expression, freedom of the press, access to information, and the circulation of ideas, but it also permits restrictions to protect national security, public […]
Image Rights and Unauthorized Commercial Use in Turkey is not governed by a single stand-alone “right of publicity” statute. In practice, Turkish protection is built from several layers of law working together: the Constitution, the Turkish Civil Code, the Turkish Code of Obligations, Law No. 5846 on Intellectual and Artistic Works, the Personal Data Protection […]