‘Sleeping Beauty’: The previous legal regime And now the time has come to write about the lengthy story already mentioned here, the story of the public lending right in Greece; the right that allows authors and other rightsholders to receive payment (usually from government) to compensate for the free loan of their books by public….

Introduction In November 2022, almost 18 months after the transposition deadline, Law 4996/2022 (Of. Gov. Gaz. A 218/24.11.2022) implemented into the Greek legal order Directives (EU) 790/2019 (hereinafter DSMD) and 789/2019 (as well as Directive 2006/115 on the public lending right, but this is another (lengthy) story…). In doing so, it amended Law 2121/1993, the…