Judgment in Case C-470/14 Entidad de Gestión de Derechos de los Productores Audiovisuales (EGEDA) and Others v Administración del Estado and Others

The European Court of Justice decided on 9 June 2016 that the copyright directive precludes fair compensation due to authors for private copying of their works from being financed by a budgetary scheme such as that established in Spain.

The Court considered that such a scheme does not guarantee that the cost of that fair compensation is ultimately borne solely by the users of private copies.

• Primary Source

EUObserver, 09.06.16: EU court curbs public copyright compensation https://euobserver.com/economic/133763

WIPR, 09.06.16: CJEU rules against Spain’s private copying scheme http://www.worldipreview.com/news/cjeu-rules-against-spain-s-private-copying-scheme-10257

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