À atenção dos autores: EC takes Ireland to court over breach of copyright rules: The European Commission has referred Ireland to the European Court of Justice for failing to fully implement an EU directive on copyright and public lending.
Under the regulations, book authors have an exclusive right to say whether or not their work can be lent by public libraries. [...]
Individual member states are also allowed to exempt certain categories of establishment from paying this remuneration, but Ireland simply exempts all public libraries.
The EC believes this breaches the terms of the directive and has therefore decided to refer Ireland to the Court of Justice along with Spain and Portugal, who also exempt all public libraries from the regulations.
