All international sporting events organised wholly or partly under the rules of the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) Sporting Code [ 1 ] are termed FAI International Sporting Events [ 2 ]. Under the FAI Statutes [ 3 ], FAI owns and controls all rights relating to FAI International Sporting Events. FAI Members [ 4 ] shall, within their national territories [ 5 ], enforce FAI ownership of FAI International Sporting Events and require them to be registered in the FAI Sporting Calendar [ 6 ].
Permission and authority to exploit any rights to any commercial activity at such events, including but not limited to advertising at or for such events, use of the event name or logo for merchandising purposes and use of any sound and/or image, whether recorded electronically or otherwise or transmitted in real time, must be sought by way of prior agreement with FAI. This includes specifically all rights to the use of any material, electronic or other, that forms part of any method or system for judging, scoring, performance evaluation or information utilised in any FAI International Sporting Event [ 7 ].
Each FAI Air Sport Commission [ 8 ] is authorised to negotiate prior agreements on behalf of FAI with FAI Members or other entities as appropriate, of the transfer of all or parts of the rights to any FAI International Sporting Event (except World Air Games events [ 9 ] ) which is organised wholly or partly under the Sporting Code section [ 10 ] for which that Commission is responsible [ 11 ]. Any such transfer of rights shall be by "Organiser Agreement" [ 12 ] as specified in the current FAI Bylaws Chapter 1, para 1.2 "Rules for Transfer of Rights to FAI International Sporting Events".
Any person or legal entity which accepts the responsibility for organising an FAI Sporting Event, whether or not by written agreement, in doing so also accepts the propriatory rights of FAI as stated above. Where no formal transfer of rights has been established, FAI retains all rights to the event. Regardless of any agreement or transfer of rights, FAI shall have, free of charge for its own archival and/or promotional use, full access to any sound and/or visual images of any FAI Sporting Event, and always reserves itself the right to have any and all parts of any event recorded, filmed and/or photographed for such use, without charge.