The Association for the Management of Private Copying (AGECOP), disputes the statements made today by three associations of the sectors of telecommunications, distribution and consumer electronics that questioned the constitutionality of the application of the private copying law.
A statement on AGECOP states that “the legislative process that led to the approval by the copy of the Law updating the Parliament was the most private participated in living memory in the field of intellectual property” and argues that “the approved rates are between the lowest in all of Europe. “
With regard to private copying, as part of a legislative package on copyright at issue is the existence of a fee to offset the authors (the called “fair compensation”) for each copy for private use that each user or consumer to make a work (an album or a movie, for example).
This charge will have a range between 0.05 cents and 20 euros and applies to devices such as MP3 players, external hard drives, mobile phones, CDs, printers, memory cards and storage media (the stick).
The funds resulting from the collection that rate shall be administered by the Association for the Management of Private Copying (AGECOP) and redistributed by the copyright owners.
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