Belgium, Case Law, Collective management, Communication (right of), Digital Single Market, Making available (right of)
Red light for Sabam’s pricing system for Internet access providers: up- and downstream IAP traffic do not constitute communication or making a work available to the public
On the 13th March 2015, the President of the Brussels French speaking Court of First Instance pronounced a judgment to the detriment of Sabam, an important collective management organisation in Belgium. In 2011 Sabam decided to claim a fee from Internet access providers in exchange for a licence which allows these providers to communicate copyright…