Les droits audiovisuels des manifestations sportives constituent un ensemble juridique complexe en constante évolution. La reconnaissance du monopole d’exploitation de la manifestation sportive au profit de l’organisateur, qui légitime la commercialisation des droits, constitue la pierre angulaire de cette construction. L’identification des entités titulaires des droits ne va pas de soi, le propriétaire n’ayant pas systématiquement vocation à les commercialiser. La procédure de mise en concurrence sur le marché demande de plus à être clarifiée compte tenu de la proximité des régimes juridiques en présence. Dans ce contexte, la commercialisation des droits donne lieu à un contrat dont la qualification juridique doit être précisée au regard des différentes dénominations rencontrées. L’environnement du contrat, qui permet d’appréhender comment sa réalité juridique est prise en compte par le droit à l’information et les contrats périphériques, ne peut pas être ignoré. Il s’agit ainsi de rechercher les implications juridiques attachées aux droits audiovisuels des manifestations sportives, de la phase de commercialisation au contrat. Plusieurs champs juridiques complémentaires et imbriqués irriguent alors cette recherche sur les droits audiovisuels des manifestations sportives, renforçant ainsi sa spécificité / Sports broadcasting rights are governed by a complex legal code in constant evolution. The notion that the organizer retains exclusive rights to the use of the sporting event, which legitimizes the commercialization of these rights, is the cornerstone of the system. Identifying the entities that hold the rights is not easy as the owner does not systematically retain commercialization rights. The approach to bringing broadcasting to market must be clarified due to the overlapping of legal domains. In this case, the commercialization of rights is outlined in a contract whose legal characteristics must be specified in accordance with the different denominations involved. The context in which the contract is drawn up cannot be ignored as it allows one to understand how its legal reality is taken into account by the right to information as well as related contracts. This dissertation looks at the legal implications of audiovisual broadcasting rights of sporting events, from the commercialization phase to the contract. Several complementary legal fields are linked to the research on sports broadcasting rights, thus strengthening its originality

A smart contract is a recently emerging technology which enables agreement to be automatable by computers and enforceable by legal enforcement or tamper-proof execution of code. A majority of smart contracts are run on the blockchain which enables smart contract transactions without a central authority. Smart contract implementation contains several challenges which makes implementation more difficult. The problem is that organisations struggle to implement smart contracts due to the absence of documentation, standardisation, and guidelines making it difficult to know how a smart contract should be implemented. Additionally, it is unclear what capabilities and tools are required for smart contract implementation. Therefore, it is challenging for organisations to assess their own competence of smart contract implementation. This thesis aims to develop a Smart Contract Maturity Model (SCMM). The purpose of the model is to clarify the functionalities and capabilities required to implement a smart contract while also offering organisations the ability to assess the smart contract implementation competency. This improves the adoption of smart contracts. Through the help of the design science framework, the SCMM emerged from the thesis. Applying design science included explicating the problem, defining requirements, designing and developing the artefact, demonstrating and evaluating the artefact. A literature survey was used to explicate the problem and to define requirements for the maturity model. Furthermore, a case study including interviews were used to refine the requirements and to demonstrate and evaluate the SCMM. The SCMM includes maturity levels, generic goals and practices, specific goals, key processing areas and practices, tools, glossaries and smart contract examples. Inspired by the Capability Maturity model Model Integration for Development (CMMI-DEV), the maturity levels of the SCMM consisted of initial, foundation, managed, defined, quantitatively managed and optimising. The identified key processing areas were stakeholder capabilities, resources and tools, platform, contract implementation, standards, laws and terminology and security. Although there were several limitations, the SCMM contributed to the field of smart contracts by closing the gap of previous research and improving the adoption of smart contracts.