Fair compensation for private purposes financed from the General State Budget is not allowed
09-06-2016 Print this pageIPPT20160609, CJEU, EGEDA v Estado
Article 5(2)(b) of Directive 2001/29 does not allow financing fair compensation from the General State Budget.
41. In those circumstances and as the referring court points out in the very question referred, such a scheme for financing the fair compensation from the General State Budget of the Member State concerned is not such as to guarantee that the cost of that compensation is ultimately borne solely by the users of private copies.
IPPT20160609, CJEU, EGEDA v Estado
C-470/14 - ECLI:EU:C:2016:418
