On 20 June, the Italian Government signed a ministerial decree updating for the next three years the fair compensation provided for private copying of sound recordings and video recordings as provided by the Italian copyright law.
Following the controversy that continued in the past months, the minister made it clear that:
The decree does not introduce any new tax, but merely reformulate and update rates of technological devices that manufacturers will have to pay on all new products to authors and artists for granting the reproduction for personal use of musical and audiovisual works downloaded from the web. A mechanism exists since 2009 which had to be updated to the law.
The fair compensation tariffs were waiting for an update since 2012 but as the decree was passed, Altroconsumo a major guild which protects interests of private consumers immediately declared to challenge the decree in front of the administrative courts for unfair distribution of the sums collected by SIAE.
Following the controversy that continued in the past months, the minister made it clear that:
The decree does not introduce any new tax, but merely reformulate and update rates of technological devices that manufacturers will have to pay on all new products to authors and artists for granting the reproduction for personal use of musical and audiovisual works downloaded from the web. A mechanism exists since 2009 which had to be updated to the law.The fair compensation tariffs were waiting for an update since 2012 but as the decree was passed, Altroconsumo a major guild which protects interests of private consumers immediately declared to challenge the decree in front of the administrative courts for unfair distribution of the sums collected by SIAE.
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