IRISH WRITERS WELCOME ECJ ROYALTIES RULING
January 1st, 2007
BY DEIRDRE MASONWRITERS IN the Republic of Ireland are celebrating a victory at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) that will ensure that Irish libraries pay them when their books are borrowed.Ireland, the ECJ ruled on January 11, went too far from the spirit of the 1992 European directive on lending rights when, in its Copyright and Related Rights Act 2000, it exempted all public libraries from the need to pay public lending rights. The directive allows exemptions for some establishments, but it never intended this degree of derogation, said the judges."PLR ...
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