CELEX: 62015CN0641
Language: en
Date: 2015-12-02 00:00:00
Title: Case C-641/15: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Handelsgericht Wien (Austria) lodged on 2 December 2015 — Verwertungsgesellschaft Rundfunk GmbH v Hettegger Hotel Edelweiss GmbH

7.3.2016   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 90/5
            
         Request for a preliminary ruling from the Handelsgericht Wien (Austria) lodged on 2 December 2015 — Verwertungsgesellschaft Rundfunk GmbH v Hettegger Hotel Edelweiss GmbH
   (Case C-641/15)
   (2016/C 090/07)
   Language of the case: German
   
      Referring court
   
   Handelsgericht Wien
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Verwertungsgesellschaft Rundfunk GmbH
   
      Defendant: Hettegger Hotel Edelweiss GmbH
   
      Question referred
   
   Is the condition of ‘against [payment] of an entrance fee’ laid down in Article 8(3) of Directive 2006/115/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2006 on rental right and lending right and on certain rights related to copyright in the field of intellectual property (1) satisfied where;
   
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               through the TV set made available in each room of a hotel, the hotel operator provides access to the signal for various television and radio channels (‘hotel room TV’), and
            
         
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               for use of the room (including hotel room TV), the hotel operator charges a fee per room per night (room rate) which also includes use of the TV set and the television and radio channels to which access is thereby provided?
            
         
      (1)  OJ 2006 L 376, p. 28.