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"Legal persons should not be the persons ultimately liable for payment" of private copies, the EU court said (Photo: Ben Adamson)

EU court curbs public copyright compensation

Public budgets cannot be used to compensate copyright owners for private copies, the EU Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled on Thursday (9 June).

The Luxembourg-based judges said that a 2001 EU directive on copyrights precludes schemes by which copyrights owners get a so-called fair compensation when private people use works "for private use and for non-commercial ends", if the compensation is taken ou...

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"Legal persons should not be the persons ultimately liable for payment" of private copies, the EU court said (Photo: Ben Adamson)

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