The French Supreme Administrative Court considers that a copyright levy is not a State aid (Techni Import Professionnel / Syndicat des Industriels des Matériels Audiovisuels Electroniques)

KEYWORDS
Reference

French Administrative Supreme Court, Syndicat des Industriels des Matériels Audiovisuels Electroniques et autres, Case n° 81627, 19 March 1997 (French)

Since its inception, the principle of a copyright levy sitting on magnetic and numerical audio-visual supports into which copy works can be protected by copyright has confronted unions of performers, producers, copyrights owners and unions of manufacturers of these supports. One of the arguments used by the manufacturers and the industry to contest the legality of such a levy is to classify it as State aid. The two commented decisions give examples of these on-going debates. In both

Access to this article is restricted to subscribers

Already Subscribed? Sign-in

Access to this article is restricted to subscribers.

Read one article for free

Sign-up to read this article for free and discover our services.

 

PDF Version

Author

  • Schmitt Avocats (Paris)
    France 16 contributions 86369 visits

Quotation

Elias Berkani, The French Supreme Administrative Court considers that a copyright levy is not a State aid (Techni Import Professionnel / Syndicat des Industriels des Matériels Audiovisuels Electroniques), 19 March 1997, e-Competitions Intellectual property, Art. N° 13761

Visites 4577

All issues

  • Latest News issue 
  • All News issues
  • Latest Special issue 
  • All Special issues