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Číslo (Kód CELEX):
Number (CELEX Code):		61979J0062
Název:
Title: 		JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF 18 MARCH 1980. S.A. COMPAGNIE GENERALE POUR LA DIFFUSION DE LA TELEVISION, CODITEL, AND OTHERS V S.A. CINE VOG FILMS AND OTHERS. PRELIMINARY RULING REQUESTED BY THE COUR D' APPEL, BRUSSELS. PROVISION OF SERVICES : CABLE DIFFUSION OF TELEVISION. CASE 62-79.
Publikace:
Publication:		REPORTS OF CASES 1980 PAGES 0881
Předmět (klíčová slova):
Keywords		FREEDOM OF ESTABLISHMENT AND SERVICES;FREE MOVEMENT OF SERVICES;INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL PROPERTY;
Související předpisy:
Corresponding acts:		157E059;157E060
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Corresponding Judgements:
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Fulltext:		Ne

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Shrnutí (Summary of the Judgment):
1. WHILST ARTICLE 59 OF THE EEC TREATY PROHIBITS RESTRICTIONS UPON FREEDOM TO PROVIDE SERVICES, IT DOES NOT THEREBY ENCOMPASS LIMITS UPON THE EXERCISE OF CERTAIN ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES WHICH HAVE THEIR ORIGIN IN THE APPLICATION OF NATIONAL LEGISLATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, SAVE WHERE SUCH APPLICATION CONSTITUTES A MEANS OF ARBITRARY DISCRIMINATION OR A DISGUISED RESTRICTION ON TRADE BETWEEN MEMBER STATES. SUCH WOULD BE THE CASE IF THAT APPLICATION ENABLED PARTIES TO AN ASSIGNMENT OF COPYRIGHT TO CREATE ARTIFICIAL BARRIERS TO TRADE BETWEEN MEMBER STATES.

2. THE PROVISIONS OF THE EEC TREATY RELATING TO THE FREEDOM TO PROVIDE SERVICES DO NOT PRECLUDE AN ASSIGNEE OF THE PERFORMING RIGHT IN A CINEMATOGRAPHIC FILM IN A MEMBER STATE FROM RELYING UPON HIS RIGHT TO PROHIBIT THE EXHIBITION OF THAT FILM IN THAT STATE, WITHOUT HIS AUTHORITY, BY MEANS OF CABLE DIFFUSION IF THE FILM SO EXHIBITED IS PICKED UP AND TRANSMITTED AFTER BEING BROADCAST IN ANOTHER MEMBER STATE BY A THIRD PARTY WITH THE CONSENT OF THE ORIGINAL OWNER OF THE RIGHT. INDEED, WHILST COPYRIGHT ENTAILS THE RIGHT TO DEMAND FEES FOR ANY EXHIBITION OF A CINEMATOGRAPHIC FILM, THE RULES OF THE TREATY CANNOT IN PRINCIPLE CONSTITUTE AN OBSTACLE TO THE GEOGRAPHICAL LIMITS WHICH THE PARTIES TO A CONTRACT OF ASSIGNMENT HAVE AGREED UPON IN ORDER TO PROTECT THE AUTHOR AND HIS ASSIGNS IN THIS REGARD. THE MERE FACT THAT THOSE GEOGRAPHICAL LIMITS MAY COINCIDE WITH NATIONAL FRONTIERS DOES NOT POINT TO A DIFFERENT SOLUTION IN A SITUATION WHERE TELEVISION IS ORGANIZED IN THE MEMBER STATES LARGELY ON THE BASIS OF LEGAL
BROADCASTING MONOPOLIES, WHICH INDICATES THAT A LIMITATION OTHER THAN THE GEOGRAPHICAL FIELD OF APPLICATION OF AN ASSIGNMENT IS OFTEN IMPRACTICABLE.

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