Resumen de Court of Justice of the European Union: : Hewlett-Packard Belgium v. Reprobel
On 12 November 2015, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) delivered its judgment in Hewlett-Packard Belgium v. Reprobel, which was a preliminary ruling on the interpretation of “fair compensation” under Articles 5(2)(a) and 5(2)(b) of Directive 2001/29/EU (the “InfoSoc Directive”). The case arose in Belgium, when a collective rights management organisation, Reprobel, requested that Hewlett-Packard pay a EUR 49.20 levy for every “multifunction printer” it sold. The dispute reached the Brussels Court of Appeal (Cour d’appel de Bruxelles), which referred a number of question to the CJEU.
