Council Directive 93/83/EEC of 27 September 1993 on the coordination of certain rules concerning copyright and rights related to copyright applicable to satellite broadcasting and cable retransmission is a

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which governs the application of

copyright A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive right to copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform a creative work, usually for a limited time. The creative work may be in a literary, artistic, education ...

and related rights to

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and

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in the

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. It was made under the internal market provisions of the

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Satellite broadcasting

An author has the exclusive right to authorise or to prohibit the broadcasting of his or her works by satellite (Art. 2). This right may only be subject to a compulsory licensing scheme when the satellite broadcast is simultaneous with a terrestrial broadcast rt. 3(2) Satellite broadcasting is assimilated to terrestrial broadcasting for the purposes of

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(rights of performers, phonogram producers and broadcasting organisations) (Art. 4): the protection of these rights is governed by Directive 92/100/EEC.

Cable retransmission

The main effect of the Directive is to stipulate that cable retransmission must be on the basis of

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ual, not

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, licences with copyright holders, although existing statutory licence schemes were permitted to remain in force until the end of 1997 (Art. 8). These licences may only be granted or refused by collecting societies rt. 9(1) which effectively makes such societies compulsory: a collecting society may be deemed to be mandated to manage the cable retransmission rights of a copyright holder in the absence of any expressive agreement rt. 9(2) Broadcasting organisations are free to exercise their own

to license or prohibit the cable retransmission of their own broadcasts (Art. 10). The Directive also provides for mediation in disputes between cable operators and collecting societies (Art. 11) and for measures to prevent abuse of monopoly powers (Art. 12).

Implementation

References

Council Directive 92/100/EEC of 19 November 1992 on rental right and lending right and on certain rights related to copyright in the field of intellectual property
''OJ'' no. L346 of 1992-11-27, p. 61.

External links

Text of the DirectiveReport from the Commission on the coordination of certain rules concerning copyright and rights related to copyright applicable to satellite broadcasting and cable retransmission
26 July 2002. {{Intellectual property laws of the European Union Copyright law of the European Union European Union directives 1993 in law 1993 in the European Union

Satellite broadcasting

Cable retransmission

Implementation

See also

References

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