Hi Nicolas,<br><br>the lawyer who won that case, Josep Jover, is number 1 of our lists (Pirates de Catalunya) in Lleida (his province)<br><a href="http://pirata.cat/bloc/?p=573">http://pirata.cat/bloc/?p=573</a><br><br>Should you have any question, just ask us :)<br>
<br>Cheers,<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Nicolas Sahlqvist <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nicco77@gmail.com">nicco77@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The Court of Justice of the European Union gave it's opinion on the Spanish PADAWAN vs. SGAE case by saying:</font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">"The application of the ‘private copying levy’ to reproduction media acquired by undertakings and professionals for purposes other than private copying is not compatible with European Union law"</font><div>
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Furthermore they justify a 'private copying levy’ for private persons buying CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R and MP3 devices etc. since they can presume to use the devices to copy protected work and thereby cause harm to the author. </font></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 13px;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2010-10/cp100106en.pdf" target="_blank">http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2010-10/cp100106en.pdf</a></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><font color="#888888"><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Nicolas</font></div>
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