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DIGITAL ROYALTY

On 24 June 2008 the Ministerial Order PRE/1743/2008 of 18 June (Orden Ministerial PRE/1743/2008, de 18 de junio) came into force, itemising the equipment,  appliances and material support subject to payment of the fair compensation for acts of private copying, the sums applicable thereto and the distribution thereof among the various means of reproduction.
The digital royalty, paid by the manufacturer rather than the consumer, aims to compensate authors for the revenue they forfeit whenever a copy is made of their work and therefore falls on any resources capable of storing any type of artistic creation.

The sums to be paid by each one of these resources will be 0.17 euros for CDs; 0.44 euros for DVDs; 1.1 euros for mobile phones with music reproducer and 3.15 euros per unit for MP3s and MP4s.

The Order also lays down the charge to be made on printers, photocopiers, faxes, scanners, disc recorders, USB memories or hard discs.

The Order will be enforced until 31 December 2009, or until one year has passed since the coming into force of the amendment Order referred to in number 2 of section three of said order. Nonetheless, the latter will be extended, pursuant to article 25, section 6, of the revised text of the Intellectual Property Act (Ley de Propiedad Intelectual: LPI), until such time as other compensation arrangements are made.

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