CELEX: 62009CN0462
Language: en
Date: 2009-11-25 00:00:00
Title: Case C-462/09: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Hoge Raad der Nederlanden (Netherlands) lodged on 25 November 2009 — Stichting de Thuiskopie v Mijndert van der Lee and Others

30.1.2010   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 24/38
            
         Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Hoge Raad der Nederlanden (Netherlands) lodged on 25 November 2009 — Stichting de Thuiskopie v Mijndert van der Lee and Others
   (Case C-462/09)
   2010/C 24/66
   Language of the case: Dutch
   
      Referring court
   
   Hoge Raad der Nederlanden
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Appellant: Stichting de Thuiskopie
   
      Respondents: Mijndert van der Lee, Hananja van der Lee, Opus Supplies Deutschland GmbH
   
      Questions referred
   
   
               1.
            
            
               Does Directive 2001/29/EC, (1) in particular Article 5(2)(b) and (5) thereof, provide any assistance in determining who should be regarded under national law as owing the ‘fair compensation’ referred to in Article 5(2)(b)? If so, what assistance does it provide?
            
         
               2.
            
            
               In a case of distance selling in which the buyer is established in a different Member State to that of the seller, does Article 5(5) of Directive 2001/29/EC require national law to be interpreted so broadly that a person owing the ‘fair compensation’ referred to in Article 5(2)(b) of the directive who is acting on a commercial basis owes such compensation in at least one of the Member States involved in the distance selling?
            
         
      (1)  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 (OJ 2001 L 167, p. 10)