Brussels, 20/06/2011 (Agence Europe) - Member states which have brought in an “exception for private copying” are obliged to ensure effective recovery of the “fair compensation” intended to compensate the authors, artists and producers, even if the commercial seller of the reproduction media is established in another member state.
This is the gist of the ruling returned by the Court of Justice of the EU in Case C-462/09, in response to questions brought by the Dutch Supreme Court on...