Directive on the coordination of certain rules concerning copyright and rights related to copyright applicable to satellite broadcasting and cable retransmission

EU directive
title=Directive on the coordination of certain rules concerning copyright and rights related to copyright applicable to satellite broadcasting and cable retransmission
number=93/83/EEC
madeby=European Council
madeunder=Arts. 57(2), 66 & 100a
OJref=L248, 1993-10-06, pp. 15–21
made=27 September 1993
commenced=6 October 1993
implementation=1 January 1995
CommProp=C255, 1991-10-01, p. 3 C25, 1993-01-28, p. 43
ESCOpin=C98, 1992-04-21, p. 44
ParlOpin=C305, 1992-11-23, p. 129
Reports=
replaces=—
amends=—
amendedby=—
replacedby=—
status=Current

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.ref|92-100

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

EU directive implementation
AT= [http://www.wipo.int/clea/docs_new/en/at/at012en.html Urheberrechtsgesetznovelle 1996] No. 151
CZ= [http://www.wipo.int/clea/docs_new/en/cz/cz029en.html Law No. 121/2000 Coll. of 7 April 2000 on Copyright, Rights Related to Copyright and on the Amendment of Certain Laws]
DK= [http://www.wipo.int/clea/docs_new/en/dk/dk001en.html Act on Copyright 1995 No. 395]
FR= [http://www.wipo.int/clea/docs_new/fr/fr/fr054fr.html Loi no. 97-283 du 27 mars 1997]
DE= [http://www.wipo.int/clea/docs_new/en/de/de071en.html Law of 08.05.1998]
GR= [http://www.wipo.int/clea/docs_new/en/gr/gr213en.html Law No. 2557/1997, Official Journal A271/1997]
LT= [http://www.wipo.int/clea/docs_new/en/lv/lv017en.html Autortiesību likums] (2000-04-06)
LI= [http://www.wipo.int/clea/docs_new/en/lt/lt002en.html Autorių teisių ir gretutinių teisių įstatimas N. VIII-1185] (1999-05-18)
LU= [http://www.wipo.int/clea/docs_new/fr/lu/lu010fr.html Loi du 8 septembre 1997]
MT= [http://www.wipo.int/clea/docs_new/en/mt/mt001en.html Copyright Act, 2000]
PT= [http://www.wipo.int/clea/docs_new/en/pt/pt021en.html Decreto-Lei n. 333/97, de 27 de Novembro de 1997]
SK= [http://www.wipo.int/clea/docs_new/en/sk/sk021en.html Copyright Act] of 1997-12-05 (No. 383/1997)
SI= [http://www.wipo.int/clea/docs_new/en/si/si001en.html Zakon o avtorskih in sorodnih pravicah] (1995-03-30)
ES= [http://www.wipo.int/clea/docs_new/en/es/es025en.html 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]
GB=Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 1996 No. 2967

See also

*Copyright law of the European Union
*Broadcast piracy

References

# [http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/copyright/docs/docs/1992-100_en.pdf 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.

External links

* [http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:31993L0083:EN:HTML Text of the Directive]
* [http://europa.eu.int/cgi-bin/eur-lex/udl.pl?REQUEST=Seek-Deliver&COLLECTION=com&SERVICE=eurlex&LANGUAGE=en&DOCID=502PC0430&FORMAT=pdf Report from the Commission on the coordination of certain rules concerning copyright and rights related to copyright applicable to satellite broadcasting and cable retransmission] , 26 July 2002.