According to EU law, the Member States grant, in principle, authors, performers, producers and broadcasting organizations the exclusive right to authorize or prohibit the reproduction of their works, fixations of their performances, their phonograms, their films and fixations of their broadcasts. However, the Member States may provide for exceptions or limitations to those exclusive rights. Accordingly, they may permit, in particular, the making of private copies. A Member State which avails itself of this option must, however, provide that the rightholders receive ‘fair compensation’. That compensation is to compensate rightholders for the reproduction, without their authorization, of their protected works or other protected subject-matter.”
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