Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: Euopean Union' Court of Justice

Date: 09/22/2016

Subject: The Court affirmed that EU law precludes national legislation that, on the one hand, subjects exemption from payment of the private copying levy for producers and importers of devices and media intended for use clearly unrelated to private copying to the conclusion of agreements between an entity which has a legal monopoly on the representation of the interests of authors of works, and those liable to pay compensation, or their trade associations, and, on the other hand, provides that the reimbursement of such a levy, where it has been unduly paid, may be requested only by the final user of those devices and media

Parties: Nokia Italia e a.

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 17 Intellectual property

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