The introduction of Law 4481/2017 into the Greek legislation aimed to regulate the collective management of IP and relative rights, thus amending the EU Collective Rights Management Directive. (1) Specifically, in its regulation of the public performance of musical works incorporated in legitimately released sound carriers, stores, and undertakings, article 24 of Law 4481/2017 introduced a reporting obligation for users.
What is the reporting obligation?
The reporting obligation entails the delivery of lists of works used by the user to the collective management organisations (CMOs) representing the rights of the specific works. This derives not only from the teleological interpretation of article 24 of Law 4481/2017 (article 17 of the EU Collective Rights Management Directive) but also from the specific grammatical wording of the provision of article 24 itself: Read more…
