Brussels, 09/06/2016 (Agence Europe) - EU rules preclude fair compensation due to authors for private copying of their works from being financed by all taxpayers through non-specific state resources, explained the European Court of Justice in a decision made on Thursday 9 June (C-470/14).
The vast majority of member states finance "fair compensation" through a levy paid to rights holders to compensate their lost income due to reproductions of their work by a natural person for private use...