Lights. Camera. Live streaming. Legal action?

If someone gets hurt in a game and wishes to make a claim, and an insurance company wants to see any and all available footage of the incident, what’s the legal standing of that footage?
Lights. Camera. Live streaming. Legal action?
Livestreaming of GAA matches

When the pandemic began to bite a few months ago, there was no shortage of takes on how the absence of sports content would affect the media.

Broadcasters made up a particular area of interest - there were ominous predictions of legal chaos between rights-holders and sporting bodies, with suggestions that the former would hold the latter to the letter of contracts worth millions upon millions (Hence the flurry of postponements rather than cancellations, so that all sides might be appeased, however fleetingly.) 

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