Order of the Court (Third Chamber) of 14 July 2015 — Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores

(Case C‑151/15) ( 1 )

‛Reference for a preliminary ruling — Article 99 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice — Copyright and related rights in the information society — Directive 2001/29/EC — Article 3(1) — Concept of ‘communication to the public’ — Broadcasting of works in a café-restaurant by means of a radio apparatus connected to loudspeakers’

1. Questions referred for a preliminary ruling — Questions the answer to which may be clearly deduced from the Court’s existing case-law — Application of Article 99 of the Rules of Procedure (Art. 267 TFEU; Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice, Art. 99) (see paras 8, 9)

2. Approximation of laws — Copyright and related rights — Directive 2001/29 — Harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society — Communication to the public — Concept — Transmission, by operators of a café-restaurant, of musico-literary works broadcast by a radio broadcasting station, by means of a radio apparatus connected to loudspeakers and/or amplifiers, to the customers present in that establishment — Inclusion (European Parliament and Council Directive 2001/29, Recital 23 and Art. 3(1)) (see paras 12-28, operative part.)

Operative part:

The concept of ‘communication to the public’ within the meaning of Article 3(1) of Directive 2001/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society must be interpreted as meaning that it covers the transmission, by operators of a café-restaurant, of musico-literary works broadcast by a radio broadcasting station, by means of a radio apparatus connected to loudspeakers and/or amplifiers, to the customers present in that establishment.

( 1 ) OJ C 205, 22.6.2015.

Order of the Court (Third Chamber) of 14 July 2015 — Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores

(Case C‑151/15) ( 1 )

‛Reference for a preliminary ruling — Article 99 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice — Copyright and related rights in the information society — Directive 2001/29/EC — Article 3(1) — Concept of ‘communication to the public’ — Broadcasting of works in a café-restaurant by means of a radio apparatus connected to loudspeakers’

1. Questions referred for a preliminary ruling — Questions the answer to which may be clearly deduced from the Court’s existing case-law — Application of Article 99 of the Rules of Procedure (Art. 267 TFEU; Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice, Art. 99) (see paras 8, 9)

2. Approximation of laws — Copyright and related rights — Directive 2001/29 — Harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society — Communication to the public — Concept — Transmission, by operators of a café-restaurant, of musico-literary works broadcast by a radio broadcasting station, by means of a radio apparatus connected to loudspeakers and/or amplifiers, to the customers present in that establishment — Inclusion (European Parliament and Council Directive 2001/29, Recital 23 and Art. 3(1)) (see paras 12-28, operative part.)

Operative part:

The concept of ‘communication to the public’ within the meaning of Article 3(1) of Directive 2001/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society must be interpreted as meaning that it covers the transmission, by operators of a café-restaurant, of musico-literary works broadcast by a radio broadcasting station, by means of a radio apparatus connected to loudspeakers and/or amplifiers, to the customers present in that establishment.

( 1 ) OJ C 205, 22.6.2015.