The SAA and several of its members hereby send a letter to all parties concerned in the relevant proceedings initiated by the Antimonopoly Office of the Slovak Republic against LITA - the Slovak Society of Authors and member of the SAA.

A major blow to device manufacturers and importers who just don’t want to be involved in the compensation of creators. Private copying seems to be taking up quite a bit of the European Court of Justice’s time just lately.

The ruling published on 27 June 2013 recognises that any device used as part of a reproduction process can be subject to a levy to compensate authors for the reproduction, without their authorisation, of their protected works.

In a case opposing the scriptwriter/director of a documentary film, Mr Luksan, and the producer of the film, Mr van der Let, the European Court of Justice has given comfort to European scriptwriters and directors, clarifying their exploitation rights and their right to fair compensation for private copying in the films they create.  The Judgement issued on 9th February 2012 was on a reference for a preliminary ruling from an Austrian court and had to deal with the Austrian copyright law dating back to 1