Court of Justice of the European Union: : no private copying levy for downloading from an illegal source

• Autores: Alexander de Leeuw
• Localización: IRIS: Legal Observations of the European Audiovisual Observatory, ISSN-e 1023-8565, Nº. 6, 2014, págs. 4-5
• Idioma: francés
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• Resumen

  • On 10 April 2014, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) delivered its opinion in Case C-435/12 (ACI Adam/Stichting de Thuiskopie).The Court considered whether reproductions from unlawful sources fall within the private copying exemption of Directive 2001/29/EC (Copyright Directive). Advocate General (AG) Villalón was of the opinion that reproductions from unlawful sources fall outside the scope of private copying (IRIS 2014-3/3). The CJEU followed the AG�s opinion and stated that the private copying exception cannot cover reproductions made from unlawful sources, and that accordingly, the levy cannot be calculated on the basis of such unlawful reproductions.