PORTUGAL CENSURED BY ECJ OVER AUTHOR COMPENSATION DENIAL
July 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
PORTUGAL has been ordered by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to reform its copyright law, so that the country's public libraries have a duty to pay authors when they lend books. By not writing such a commitment into its national law, the Portuguese government has been censured by the court for breaching European Union directive 92/100/EEC on rental right, lending right and copyright. Portugal argued its lending compensation policies were a national issue and so not affected by EU laws. However, this was rejected by the court, which could ...
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