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Act on the Management of Copyright and Related Rights by Collecting Societies (Collecting Societies Act, as amended up to Act of June 1, 2017), Germany
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Year of Version
2017
Dates
Amended up to:
September 6, 2017
Entry into force:
June 1, 2016
Promulgated:
May 24, 2016
Type of Text
Main IP Laws
Subject Matter
Copyright and Related Rights (Neighboring Rights),
IP Regulatory Body
Subject Matter (secondary)
Enforcement of IP and Related Laws,
Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)
Notes
This consolidated version of the Act on the Management of Copyright and Related Rights by Collecting Societies incorporates all the amendments up to the ‘Ninth Amendment of June 1, 2017, to the Act Against Restraints of Competition’, which entered into force on June 9, 2017, on the day following its publication in the Federal Law Gazette, except for the provisions in Article 8 which entered into force on different dates.
Article 4 of the said Act of June 1, 2017, which entered into force on June 9, 2017, replaces the words ‘Sentence 2’ by the words ‘Sentence 4’ in § 110, paragraph 2, sentence 2 under Part 5, Chapter 1 of this consolidated version.
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Gesetz über die Wahrnehmung von Urheberrechten und verwandten Schutzrechten durch Verwertungsgesellschaften (Verwertungsgesellschaftengesetz - VGG) (zuletzt geändert durch das Gesetz vom 1. Juni 2017)
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