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December 28, 2004
Copyright and public lending right
The European Commision and the politicians and professional representatives from several countries of the European Union keep on finding difficulties in elaborating laws on public loan of works in libraries. After the pression carried out by library sectors, with the suppport of a big number of authors (see web pages where actions are gathered), the European Commision have decided take Spain, Ireland and Portugal to the Tribunal de Justicia. The reason is expressed in the press release in the following way: “Not having integrated completely in their national legislation the public loan right previewed in the Directiva 92/100/CEE about renting and loaning rights and other rights related to royalties in the field of copyright”. On the other hand, the Commision have started the infraction proceedings against Denmark, Filand and Sweden, countries that payed partialy for the public loan, because it just affected local authors or those who wrote in nacional languages.
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Published: December 28, 2004
Category: Intelectual property
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