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The availability of televisions and radio broadcasting devices, inside hotel rooms, for the purpose of commercial exploitation, constitutes a triggering event relating to the obligation to pay the fees required by Ecad, for the protection of copyright.
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123RF Judge decides that hotel in Belo Horizonte has to pay fees to Ecad despite the pay TV contract
This was the understanding of judge Portugal Mobile Number List Geraldo David Camargo, of the 30th Civil Court of Belo Horizonte, when ordering a hotel in the capital of Minas Gerais to compensate Ecad in R$ 22 thousand for having stopped paying the monthly fees allocated to the copyright body.
According to the records, the hotel offered radio and TV equipment in 29 rooms, without paying the copyright fee. The hotel paid all monthly fees to Ecad until March 2016, when payments stopped, incorrectly.
In its defense, the hotel claimed that the pay TV contract includes copyright fees and further stated that it has been experiencing financial difficulties, with a low occupancy rate. In the sentence, the judge cited a precedent from the Superior Court of Justice that hotel rooms are considered to be shared, even if they are private.
"Hiring a company to provide pay TV services, with the provision of signals, does not mean the presumed payment of fees relating to copyright arising from the transmission of sounds and images in collective frequency areas, as these are situations different," he said. With information from the TJ-MG press office.
