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Broadcasters have no right to a share of hotel revenues for TV sets, says EU court opinion

By Magnus Franklin ( October 25, 2016, 10:56 GMT | Insight) -- Hotels have no obligation to share revenue with free-to-air television broadcasters just because guests can watch TV programs in their rooms, says an opinion prepared for Europe’s highest court. Today’s recommendation from Advocate General Maciej Szpunar says it’s wrong to apply an EU law covering rental payments for cinema-like broadcast screenings to hotel rooms, because people don’t reserve rooms primarily to watch television....

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