Satellite and Cable Directive

Directive 93/83/EEC
European Union directive
Title Directive on the coordination of certain rules concerning copyright and rights related to copyright applicable to satellite broadcasting and cable retransmission
Made by European Council
Made under Arts. 57(2), 66 & 100a
Journal reference L248, 1993-10-06, pp. 1521
History
Date made 27 September 1993
Came into force 6 October 1993
Implementation date 1 January 1995
Preparative texts
Commission proposal C255, 1991-10-01, p. 3
C25, 1993-01-28, p. 43
EESC opinion C98, 1992-04-21, p. 44
EP opinion C305, 1992-11-23, p. 129
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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 European Union directive which governs the application of copyright and related rights to satellite and cable television in the European Union. It was made under the internal market provisions of the Treaty of Rome.

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 [Art. 3(2)]. Satellite broadcasting is assimilated to terrestrial broadcasting for the purposes of related rights (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 contractual, not statutory, 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 [Art. 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 [Art. 9(2)]. Broadcasting organisations are free to exercise their own related rights to licence 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

Implementation of the Directive by Member States
Austria Austria Urheberrechtsgesetznovelle 1996 No. 151
Belgium Belgium Loi du 30 juin 1994 relative au droit d'auteur et aux droits voisins, chapter III
Bulgaria Bulgaria unknown
Cyprus Cyprus unknown
Czech Republic Czech Republic Law No. 121/2000 Coll. of 7 April 2000 on Copyright, Rights Related to Copyright and on the Amendment of Certain Laws
Denmark Denmark Act on Copyright 1995 No. 395
Estonia Estonia unknown
Finland Finland unknown
France France Loi no</sup> 97-283 du 27 mars 1997 portant transposition dans le code de la propriété intellectuelle des directives du Conseil des Communautés européennes nos</sup> 93/83 du 27 septembre 1993 et 93/98 du 29 octobre 1993
Germany Germany Law of 08.05.1998
Greece Greece Law No. 2557/1997, Official Journal A271/1997
Hungary Hungary unknown
Republic of Ireland Ireland unknown
Italy Italy unknown
Latvia Latvia Autortiesību likums (2000-04-06)
Lithuania Lithuania Autorių teisių ir gretutinių teisių įstatimas N. VIII-1185 (1999-05-18)
Luxembourg Luxembourg Loi du 8 septembre 1997
Malta Malta Copyright Act, 2000
Netherlands Netherlands unknown
Poland Poland unknown
Portugal Portugal Decreto-Lei n. 333/97, de 27 de Novembro de 1997
Romania Romania unknown
Slovakia Slovakia Copyright Act of 1997-12-05 (No. 383/1997)
Slovenia Slovenia Zakon o avtorskih in sorodnih pravicah (1995-03-30)
Spain Spain Ley 28/1995, de 11 de octubre, de incorporación al Derecho español de la Directiva 93/83/CEE, del Consejo, de 27 de septiembre, sobre coordinación de determinadas disposiciones relativas a los derechos de autor y derechos afines a los derechos de autor en el ámbito de la radiodifusión vía satélite y de la distribución por cable
Sweden Sweden unknown
United Kingdom United Kingdom Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 1996 No. 2967

See also

References

  1. ^ 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.


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