Spain, Japan team up to reduce football piracy
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Juan Fernandez Gonzalez
| 28 June 2017

Spain’s La Liga and Japan’s J-League will work together to develop football competitions in both countries, focusing on reducing content piracy on TV and the Internet.
The presidents of both competitions, Javier Tebas and Mitsuru Murai, have signed an agreement to set the guidelines to improve sports management, security and reduce audiovisual piracy.

No specific measures have been announced, but both competitions will work together to find football contents illegally published on the Internet and to protect copyrights of both La Liga and J-League.

“This agreement will help both organisations to share experience and knowledge,” said Javier Tebas, president, La Liga. “For us, joining forces with a leading league such as the Japanese is strategically important.”

For the last years, La Liga has been strongly focusing on reducing piracy rates in Spain. According to the latest figures released by the competition, in 2016 there were 4.2% less piracy access to video content than in 2015.

The deal aims also to develop training conferences about other topics like marketing, finances, management, security measures inside the stadiums, or the future challenges of football competitions.