Chellomedia has won a case against Dutch mechanical rights society Stemra, who argued that copyright payments were due for digitalising and storing audiovisual material before broaddcast on local servers at the broadcast centre in Amsterdam. The Amsterdam judge ruled that this is part of the regular technical process rather than a permanent reproduction for publication and as such does not fall under the copyright law.
Earlier, Stemra has unsuccessfully been trying to get additional payments from Chellomedia for uplinking audiovisual material to satellites for further distribution via DTH and cable platforms. In that case, the judge ruled that if any payments were due, they had to be collected from the platforms rather than from the provider of the delivery of the content.
