TRINITI represented Viasat, a global satellite operator in a civil case, where the Estonian Authors’ Union (EAÜ) presented claims against Viasat to refrain from providing the signal of 42 different television programmes (incl. ETV, ETV2, Kanal 2, TV3, TV6 and Kanal 11) to end consumers without obtaining prior permission (license) from the EAÜ. Read more
The court found in favour of Viasat that it is not required to obtain the consent of the authors, because the (unified) transmitters of the television programmes are the television service providers who already have signed contracts for the transmission of the works with the authors and that Viasat is an undertaking only enabling the service of transmission via satellite and is not itself transmitting the programmes within the meaning of the Copyright Act
