Press Release: Judgment in Case C-435/12. ACI Adam BV and Others v Stichting de Thuiskopie, Stichting Onderhandelingen Thuiskopie vergoeding

The amount of the levy payable for making private copies of a protected work may not take unlawful reproductions into account.

The fact that no applicable technological measure to combat the making of unlawful private copies exists is not capable of calling that finding into question.

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