The claim for payment of the multiple amount of the respective remuneration under copyright law – the voice in defense of the status quo the day before the date of the Constitutional Tribunal’s judgment Cover Image

Roszczenie o zapłatę wielokrotności stosownego wynagrodzenia w prawie autorskim – głos w obronie status quo na dzień przed wyrokiem Trybunału Konstytucyjnego
The claim for payment of the multiple amount of the respective remuneration under copyright law – the voice in defense of the status quo the day before the date of the Constitutional Tribunal’s judgment

Author(s): Dorota Sokołowska
Subject(s): Civil Law
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Directive 2004/48/EC; copyright; infringement; damages; respective remuneration; multiple amount; prawo autorskie; naruszenie; odszkodowanie; stosowne wynagrodzenie

Summary/Abstract: The article contains the response to the criticism of the solution regulated under article 79 section 1 point 3 letter b of the Copyright and Related Rights Act made before the Constitutional Tribunal rendered its judgment of 23 June 2015 repealing he above-mentioned legal provision. The genesis of article 79 section 1 point 3 letter b leads to the conclusion that it constituted an autonomous institution of the Polish copyright law. In particular, the claim for payment of a triple amount of the respective remuneration, where the copyright infringement is culpable, was not of a penal nature, neither was it contradictory to the Polish model of liability for damages, moreover at the same time, it was in accordance with the provisions of the Directive 2004/48/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the enforcement of intellectual property rights.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 72
  • Page Range: 349-373
  • Page Count: 25
  • Language: Polish