CELEX: 62018CN0781
Language: en
Date: 2018-12-12 00:00:00
Title: Case C-781/18: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunale ordinario di Roma (Italy) lodged on 12 December 2018 — Società Italiana degli Autori ed Editori (S.I.A.E.) v Soundreef Ltd

25.3.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 112/21
            
         
      Request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunale ordinario di Roma (Italy) lodged on 12 December 2018 — Società Italiana degli Autori ed Editori (S.I.A.E.) v Soundreef Ltd
      (Case C-781/18)
      (2019/C 112/26)
      Language of the case: Italian
      
         Referring court
      
      Tribunale ordinario di Roma
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: S.I.A.E. — Società Italiana degli Autori ed Editori
      
         Defendant: Soundreef Ltd
      
         Question referred
      
      Must Directive 2014/26/EU (1) be interpreted as precluding national legislation that reserves access to the copyright intermediation market, or in any event the granting of licences to users, solely to entities which can be classified, according to the definition in that directive, as collective management organisations, to the exclusion of those which can be classified as independent management entities incorporated in that Member State or in other Member States?
      
         (1)  Directive 2014/26/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on collective management of copyright and related rights and multi-territorial licensing of rights in musical works for online use in the internal market (OJ 2014 L 84, p. 72).