Hotel owners should not be required to pay royalties to broadcasting organisations simply because they make television sets available in the guest bedrooms, Advocate General Maciej Szpunar concluded before the Court of Justice of the EU on Tuesday 25 October.
In this case (C-641/15), the aim was essentially to determine the scope of the notion of "place accessible to the public against payment of an entrance fee", which is central to the directive on rental and lending rights and certain...