Court of Justice of the European Union · Judgment
C‑521/11Amazon.com International Sales Inc. and Others v Austro-Mechana Gesellschaft zur Wahrnehmung mechanisch-musikalischer Urheberrechte Gesellschaft mbH
- Decided
- 2013-07-11
- ECLI
- ECLI:EU:C:2013:515
- CELEX
- 62011CJ0521
- Finality
- Final, the decision cannot be appealed
The court's own keywords
Approximation of laws — Intellectual property — Copyright and related rights — Exclusive right of reproduction — Directive 2001/29/EC — Article 5(2)(b) — Fair compensation — Indiscriminate application with a possible right to recovery of the private copying levy intended to finance compensation — Payment of the revenue collected in part to rightholders and in part to social or cultural institutions — Double payment of the private copying levy in the context of a cross-border transaction.
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