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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff size=2>For those of you who read
German: <A
href="http://www.bundesgerichtshof.de">www.bundesgerichtshof.de</A> ->
Entscheidungen -> Aktenzeichen I ZR 94/05</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff size=2>A similar decision is I ZR
131/05: for multifunction machines there is a levy indeed (for this decision
there is only a press statement, the full decision is not yet available in PDF
form).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff size=2>Cases about levies for
copying machines</FONT><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff size=2> (I ZR
206/05, 8.5.2008) and PCs (I ZR 18/06) are forthcoming.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff size=2>The reason why there is no
copyright on printers is that printers by themselves would be unfit to make
copies. For the same reason, there is a levy on schanners (which does not seem
entirely logical to me).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff size=2>I guess Germany is a
forerunner in levies, and such developments are really frightening, even though
the printer decision was OK.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff
size=2>reinier</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>