Uralex - Aid Needed; Resale Royalties - A Merely Reward?

Ou la-la! Uralex, une French affaire

L'IPKat a trouvé ces Conclusions de L’Avocat Général Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer dans l'affaire C-169/05 Uradex SCRL contre Union Professionnelle de la Radio et de la Télédistribution contre Société Intercommunale pour la Diffusion de la Télévision. Malheureusement, ce n'est pas en Anglais. Mais on peut le lire en francais ...

Right: no, this isn't Babelfish - it's the outset number you lot larn if you lot search 'Uralex' on Google Image.

If anyone tin state the IPKat what it's about, he'll live on thrilled. The punchline is that:

"L’article 9, paragraphe 2, de la directive 93/83/CEE du Conseil du 27 septembre 1993 relative à la coordination de certaines règles du droit d’auteur et des droits voisins du droit d’auteur applicables à la radiodiffusion par satellite et à la retransmission par câble, permet à l’organisme réputé être chargé de gérer les droits des titulaires qui n’ont pas confié expressément la gestion de ces droits à une société en particulier, d’autoriser l’exploitation de leurs œuvres et de leurs prestations".

According to Babelfish this means:

"Article 9, paragraph 2, of directive 93/83/CEE of the Council of September 27, 1993 relating to the coordination of sure as shooting rules of the royalty as well as the rights unopen to the royalty applicable to broadcasting past times satellite as well as the retransmission past times cable, allows the famous arrangement beingness charged to larn by the rights of the holders who expressly did non entrust the administration of these rights to a fellowship inwards particular, to authorize the exploitation of their oeuvres as well as their services".

Further explanation volition live on appreciated.


Is this a simply reward?

Here's the text of a disclose published today on the UK's Patent Office website:

"UK Artists’ Creativity Rewarded

British artists volition have well-deserved vantage for their inventiveness through the introduction of regulations giving them the correct to a royalty on the re-sale of their works, Minister for Science as well as Innovation Lord Sainsbury said today.

From today, when an artist's operate is re-sold on the Great Britain fine art marketplace for the equivalent of €1,000 or more, he or she volition have a royalty of upwardly to iv per cent of the sale price.

Lord Sainsbury said: "The artists'’ re-sale correct regulations ensure a simply vantage for living British artists’ inventiveness spell protecting the valuable Great Britain fine art market."

The regulations accept been introduced to comply amongst the European Union Artist’s Re-sale Right Directive.

"The balanced Government approach volition produce goodness struggling artists without placing a heavy administrative burden on the fine art marketplace as well as volition minimise the jeopardy that sales would live on driven offshore."

The directive required the Government to fix the threshold at which the royalty is paid at betwixt €0 as well as €3,000.

Eighty-eight per cent of plant past times living artists sold inwards the Great Britain inwards the €1,000 to €3,000 toll attain inwards 2003-2004 were past times British artists.

To protect the most valuable sector of the Great Britain fine art market, which is plant past times deceased artists, the Great Britain Government successfully negotiated a delay inwards the application of the royalty to plant past times deceased artists until 2010, amongst a possible extension to 2012, as well as volition try to extend it indefinitely".

is amused to run into the sums inwards inquiry described every bit a simply reward. He reckons that artists volition consider the sums inwards inquiry derisory, spell he knows that the fine art sale manufacture regards them every bit a monstrous imposition. Merpel asks, how many votes volition British artists live on casting at the side past times side election?

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