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entities face demands rights for 1,200 million euros, according to a lawyer

03.03.2011

EFE

's lawyer Padawan computer store, Josep Jover, told Efe that the management entities facing copyright "demands by some 1,200 million euros, after the Court of Barcelona acquit his client of the charge of the digital canon that required the SGAE. Continue reading the printed article

Of the eight institutions that are rights management in Spain, five of them now charge digital canon and one of them, SGAE, collects 50 percent of this tax on businesses, public and professional .

Hearing Barcelona has acquitted today Padawan to pay the charge demanded the SGAE from the sale of digital media in the first sentence that applies the doctrine of the Court of Justice of the EU outlawed the fee in force in Spain.

In its ruling, the Court recognized that the SGAE would be entitled to apply the challenged levy on digital media sold to individuals, but not to businesses and professionals, and exempts Padawan of any payment on the grounds that it is impossible to calculate how much of this material was intended for domestic use.

This shop, whom the SGAE claimed 16,759 euros, achieved a number of resources that the European court declared not in accordance with Community law the "indiscriminate use" of the canon, in particular equipment, apparatus and media, such as CD or DVD, have not been made available to private users and are reserved for uses other than private copying. Jover

has argued that the ruling in open Padawan "definitely a life expeditiously to businesses, government and professional entities can sue for the return rights management of digital canon that was imposed in 2003." According

Jover, the decision of the Court of Barcelona applies what was known of the European directive on digital canon, which speaks of "the right balance, and that means that everything that has not habido justo equilibrio tendrán (las entidades de gestión) que devolver" el dinero que han recaudado por el canon digital, una cifra que ha estimado en unos 1.200 millones de euros.

Jover considera que estas entidades de derechos solo pueden cobrar por "el daño realmente causado a los autores, pero el canon digital no puede ser una indemnización por las copias conseguidas en Internet. Sólo podrán cobrar a los que puedan hacer copias privadas, que son personas privadas, y por eso han absuelto a mi cliente".

El abogado de Padawan ha asegurado que el cobro del canon ha llevado a "la ruina a muchas familias, que no pudieron hacer frente a esos pagos y que tuvieron que cerrar sus negocios. Se trata de un canon they do not charge their customers and that no one explained that they had to. There are another 300 cases in Spain like my client, "he said.