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Music authors v cable operator
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Expediente y fuentes
- Nombre
- Music authors v cable operator
- Cita
- Supreme Court of the Republic of Belarus, decision of 7 December 2016
- Tribunal
- Supreme Court of the Republic of Belarus
- Instancia
- national supreme court exercising first-instance copyright jurisdiction
- Fechas
- Decisión
- 2016-12-07
- Estado
- resolved-claims-granted
- Resultado
- Claims granted for all 24 proved uses.
- Resumen
- Yes. The named works and authorship were proved through the record; NCIP held collective-management authority; the operator's cable transmission was a distinct use not covered by the broadcasters' air-transmission licenses.
- Antecedentes
- A composer and lyricist alleged 24 unauthorized cable transmissions of named songs included in Belarus 2, Belarus 3 and STV programming. They had granted NCIP collective-management authority over the relevant works.
- Historia procesal
- Two compensation claims were joined by order of 19 October 2016. The operator challenged authorship, subsistence, use and the scope of broadcaster licenses. The court examined author statements, NCIP repertoire lists, management agreements, television reports and transmission evidence.
- Cuestión jurídica
- Whether the authors proved protected works, title and unauthorized cable communication, and whether broadcaster licenses also licensed the cable operator.
- Criterio
- Yes. The named works and authorship were proved through the record; NCIP held collective-management authority; the operator's cable transmission was a distinct use not covered by the broadcasters' air-transmission licenses.
- Fundamento decisivo
- A register or CMO list is evidence within a larger chain, not a constitutive grant. Claimants must identify works, authors, management authority and the precise act of exploitation; a license for one mode does not silently authorize another.
- Límites
- Authorship was not genuinely contested with competing creators, and no AI or autonomous-output issue was presented. The decision does not make NCIP registration conclusive.
- Relevancia
- doctrina-general
- Referencias relacionadas
- Peso del precedente
- Authoritative national Supreme Court first-instance decision; nonbinding precedent but complete reasoned factual extraction. Integración/votación: Single-judge disposition; the published extraction omits the judge's name. Single-judge disposition; no vote applicable.
- Fuente
- Referencia
- Music authors v cable operator
- Enlace
- Consultar fuente
- Autoridad
- Supreme Court of the Republic of Belarus
- Tipo
- doctrina-general
- Tipo de evidencia
- complete_reproduction_of_national_judgment
- Localizador
- preserved complete reproduction, lines 191-365; facts 191-227, proof and holding 305-353, dispositive section from line 365
- Verificación documentada
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