were used to set forth the connotations and characteristics of commoditized right of famous athletes image and make an appoach of the legal basis,legitimacy and necessity to protect the commoditized right of famous athletes image.

This paper starts with an introduction of portraiture right theoretics and curtrent situation of legislatio, accordingly, it will focus on a hot-issue that press and journalist are recentaly become the defendants in portraiture right cases, however, the judgements are still in dispute.

The conflicts and solving of the works copyright of the photography and portrait right;

On the legal protection for the portrait right,there are the personality law and the copyrights law,these two main kinds of legislation models.

Some more famous sports athletes are undoubtedly the public persons ,its image is known by social masses,its behavior will bring certain social effect too,so in this sense,the protection of the sports athlete′s portrait right has certain particularity.