Directive 2019/790 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market, to be transposed by the Member States into their legislations by 7 June 2021, adapts the European copyright framework to technological progress and to the new ways of using copyrighted works facilitated by digital technology and the global communication networks.

The article is a review of the scientific monograph Sports and Law, which was published this summer and was edited by Vesna Bergant Rakočević, PhD. The book presents the rapid development of sports law in the ten years that have passed since the publication of the last book dedicated to this legal field in Slovenia. It consists of eleven chapters written by seventeen authors, dealing with the legal basis of competitive sport and its organisation, the issue of sport autonomy, liability in sport, the emergence of sport in European Union law, the marketing of the image of athletes, the social rights of athletes and coach- es, sponsorship and endorsement in sport, television rights, the prevention of doping and the resolution of sports disputes before the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Keywords: sport, sports law, autonomy of sport, sports organisations, damages liability, sponsorship, endorsement, doping, sports arbitration.