Source: EURLEX
Language: en
Format: md

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| 11.6.2005 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 143/28 |

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Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Cour de Cassation de Belgique by judgment of that court of 4 April 2005, in URADEX SCRL v Union Professionelle de la Radio et de la Télédistribution, abbreviated as RTD and Société Intercommunale pour la Diffusion de la Télévision, abbreviated as BRUTELE

(Case C-169/05)

(2005/C 143/44)

Language of the case: French

Reference has been made to the Court of Justice of the European Communities by judgment of the Cour de Cassation de Belgique (Belgium) of 4 April 2005, received at the Court Registry on 15 April 2005, for a preliminary ruling in the proceedings between URADEX SCRL v Union Professionelle de la Radio et de la Télédistribution, abbreviated as RTD and Société Intercommunale pour la Diffusion de la Télévision, abbreviated as BRUTELE, on the following question:

Must Article 9(2) of 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[(1)](#ntr1-C_2005143EN.01002802-E0001) be interpreted as meaning that, where a collecting society is deemed to be mandated to manage the rights of a copyright owner or holder of related rights who has not transferred the management of his rights to a collecting society, that society does not have the power to exercise that rightholder's right to grant or refuse authorisation to a cable operator for cable retransmission, since it is mandated only to manage the pecuniary aspects of that rightholder's rights?

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