Source: EURLEX
Language: en
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| 23.10.2010 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 288/18 |

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Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Rechtbank van eerste aanleg te Brussel (Belgium) lodged on 19 July 2010 — Belgische Vereniging van Auteurs, Componisten en Uitgevers (Sabam) v Netlog NV

(Case C-360/10)

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(2010/C 288/30)

Language of the case: Dutch

Referring court

Rechtbank van eerste aanleg te Brussel

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicant: Belgische Vereniging van Auteurs, Componisten en Uitgevers (Sabam)

Defendant: Netlog NV

Question referred

Do Directives 2001/29 [(1)](#ntr1-C_2010288EN.01001802-E0001) and 2004/48, [(2)](#ntr2-C_2010288EN.01001802-E0002) in conjunction with Directives 95/46, [(3)](#ntr3-C_2010288EN.01001802-E0003) 2000/31 [(4)](#ntr4-C_2010288EN.01001802-E0004) and 2002/58, [(5)](#ntr5-C_2010288EN.01001802-E0005) construed in particular in the light of Articles 8 and 10 of the European Convention on the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, permit Member States to authorise a national court, before which substantive proceedings have been brought and on the basis merely of a statutory provision stating that: ‘They [the national courts] may also issue an injunction against intermediaries whose services are used by a third party to infringe a copyright or related right’, to order a hosting service provider to introduce, for all its customers, in abstracto and as a preventive measure, at its own cost and for an unlimited period, a system for filtering most of the information which is stored on its servers in order to identify on its servers electronic files containing musical, cinematographic or audio-visual work in respect of which SABAM claims to hold rights, and subsequently to block the exchange of such files?

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