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Fri 03 Mar 2010Hotel music charges case referred to ECJ
THE HIGH Court has asked the European Court of Justice to decide legal issues raised in proceedings brought in an effort to have hotel operators pay a charge for playing copyright music in guest bedrooms.
The organisation which collects royalties for recording artists, Phonographic Performance Ireland Ltd (PPI), initiated an action last year against the State over its alleged refusal to amend a law that exempts hotels from having to pay copyright fees for music played in hotel bedrooms.
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