IsabelG’s Comments

• Oct 31st, 2014 @ 6:24am

  Inalieble rights to collecting societies

  on Spain Passes Copyright Law; Demands Payment For Snippets And Linking To Infringing Content
  My impression is that the "inalienable right" was put in the law so that the agencies that collect author's rights can expand their business to new areas.
  
  One of them, SGAE,

  "has been often accused of exceeding its remit by going as far as to infiltrate private weddings to check whether fees had been paid for the music being played at the banquet."

  
  http://kluwercopyrightblog.com/2011/07/15/sgae-gate-spanish-collecting-society-facing-corru ption/