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SGAE v Rafael Hotels SL, Case C-306/05

SGAE v Rafael Hotels SL, Case C-306/05


Citation: SGAE v Rafael Hotels SL, Case C-306/05

Link to case on WorldLII.

Rule of thumb: What is the underlying purpose of all intellectual property law? The primary purpose of all intellectual property law – copyright, design, trademarks, patents - is the financial protection of authors/creators.

Judgment:

The Court emphasised that the important underlying goal of intellectual property law, and in this case copyright, is that people can be fairly remunerated for their ideas and not have their ideas unfairly commercially exploited by someone else, ‘... the principal objective.... is to establish a high level of protection of, inter alios, authors, allowing them to obtain an appropriate reward for the use of their works’, 36

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