In a bid to force the Dutch government to reduce the burden of levies on CD-R and DVD-R sales in the Netherlands, Imation Europe, a manufacturer of data storage products, has taken its complaint against the Dutch copyright levy system to the European Commission.
The company filed the complaint on 5 November, and wants to spur the Dutch government into making the system compatible with EU copyright rules and the 'free movement of goods' principle, laid down in EU law.
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