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Title 15 — Commerce and Trade

Chapter 32 — Telecasting of Professional Sports Contests

§ 1294. Antitrust laws unaffected as regards to other activities of professional sports contests

Statutory text

Nothing contained in this chapter shall be deemed to change, determine, or otherwise affect the applicability or nonapplicability of the antitrust laws to any act, contract, agreement, rule, course of conduct, or other activity by, between, or among persons engaging in, conducting, or participating in the organized professional team sports of football, baseball, basketball, or hockey, except the agreements to which section 1291 of this title shall apply.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 87–331 § 4 · 75 Stat. 732

    Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 1294

    (Pub. L. 87–331, § 4, Sept. 30, 1961, 75 Stat. 732.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 87–331, § 4, Sept. 30, 1961, 75 Stat. 732.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 4. Nothing contained in this Act shall be deemed to change, determine, or otherwise affect the applicability or nonapplicability of the antitrust laws to any act, contract, agreement, rule, course of conduct, or other activity by, between, or among persons engaging in, conducting, or participating in the organized professional team sports of football, baseball, basketball, or hockey, except the agreements to which section 1 of this Act shall apply.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 87–331, § 4, , 75 Stat. 732.)

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