Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice Advance Access originally published online on September 6, 2006
Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice 2006 1(12):755-756; doi:10.1093/jiplp/jpl147
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ECJ clarifies collecting societies' rights in relation to the cable retransmission right, but leaves questions unanswered
University of Nottingham
Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis Covington & Burling, Brussels
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has held that Article 9(2) of Directive 93/83 is to be interpreted as meaning that where a collecting society is deemed to be mandated to manage the rights of a copyright owner or holder of related rights who has not transferred the management of his rights to a collecting society that society has the power to exercise that right holder's right to grant or refuse authorization to a cable operator for cable retransmission and, consequently, its mandate is not limited to management of the pecuniary aspects of those rights.