Brussels, 14/04/2014 (Agence Europe) - The level of the charge payable for making private copies of protected works may not take account of the damage which could be suffered by copyright holders due to copies made from illegal sources, irrespective of the fact that there is no technical measure applicable to combat illegal private copying.
This was the verdict returned by the Court of Justice of the EU on 10 April in response to the Supreme Court of the Netherlands (case C-435/12), which...