Prejudiciële vraag over begrip "betaling van een toegangsprijs" uit de Verhuurrichtlijn

Zaak C-641/15: Verwertungsgesellschaft Rundfunk. Prejudiciële vraag Handelsgericht Wien – Austria

Auteursrecht. Naburige rechten. “A request for a preliminary ruling in a case which concerns a claim by an Austrian collecting society against a hotel chain for remuneration in relation to the broadcast of television content on TVs provided in the chain’s hotel rooms.”

Prejudiciële vraag: “Is the condition of ‘against [payment] of an entrance fee’ laid down in Article 8(3) of Directive 2006/115/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2006 on rental right and lending right and on certain rights related to copyright in the field of intellectual property satisfied where,

- through the TV set made available in each room of a hotel, the hotel operator provides access to the signal for various television and radio channels (‘hotel room TV’), and

- for use of the room (including hotel room TV), the hotel operator charges a fee per room per night (room rate) which also includes use of the TV set and the television and radio channels to which access is thereby provided?”