ISSUING OF A RULING AGAINST THE IMPROPER COLLECTION OF A “PRIVATE COPYING LEVY”.

On the 20^th of October 2015, Commercial Court no. 5 of Madrid issued Ruling nº 76/2015, declaring that the payment of compensation for private copying or “private copying levy” collected from a company by certain author’s rights entities in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 “was completely unjustified”, since the digital reproduction appliances and media were not purchased “for the purpose of” making “private copies of protected works, but for copying contents” related to the company’s activity. Consequently, the ruling has sentenced those entities to return the amounts paid by the companies which were unduly paid for that concept.