# Council Directive 93/83/EEC of 27 September 1993 on the coordination of certain rules concerning copyright and rights related to copyright applicable to satellite broadcasting and cable retransmission, Article 3: Acquisition of broadcasting rights

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

1. Member States shall ensure that the authorization referred to in Article 2 may be acquired only be agreement.
2. A Member State may provide that a collective agreement between a collecting society and a broadcasting organization concerning a given category of works may be extended to rightholders of the same category who are not represented by the collecting society, provided that:
the communication to the public by satellite simulcasts a terrestrial broadcast by the same broadcaster,
and
the unrepresented rightholder shall, at any time, have the possibility of excluding the extension of the collective agreement to his works and of exercising his rights either individually or collectively.
3. Paragraph 2 shall not apply to cinematographic works, including works created by a process analogous to cinematography.
4. Where the law of a Member State provides for the extension of a collective agreement in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 2, that Member States shall inform the Commission which broadcasting organizations are entitled to avail themselves of that law. The Commission shall publish this information in the Official Journal of the European Communities (C series).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1993/83/article/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1993-83/article-3
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