The Supreme Court ruled each year a conflict: "I left nothing of the same

On Wednesday afternoon, the Supreme Court paved the way for a lengthy litigation between the television distribution company RiksTV and the Tono rights organization.

The Supreme Court rejects the appeal of RiksTV, which lost the case to the court of appeal, and awards Tono 1.2 million crowns in court costs.

The question that arose was whether RiksTV had a compensation obligation for the authorization of music rights in programs broadcast from abroad – certain channels such as TV3, Viasat 4, Max, TVNorge and Fem.

– Very curious

He has the Supreme Court after all judge now that RiksTV has.

"There is only one court decision yet, we do not know what's in the premise, if it's only we've won." accused of costs, but we are of course very curious about what is the premise of the judgment, "said Cato Strøm, CEO of Tono in DN.

– Huge relief

The case is in the court system for six years.

"Prior to that, we had been in contact with RiksTV for a few years, and the process was incredibly long," said Strøm, adding:

"It's a huge relief to have won after working on such a complex issue, I have not done anything like that, it has involved so many players, not only in Norway, but also at home." foreigner, "said Strøm.

– very disappointed

Jérôme Franck-Sætervoll, managing director of RiksTV, told DN that RiksTV had only reached the end.

– We do not know the content of the verdict and will provide in-depth comments after reading it. The only reaction we have now is that we are very disappointed to have received this verdict against us when we paid broadcasters, who in turn paid the licensees, "said Franck-Sætervoll.(Conditions)Copyright Dagens Næringsliv AS and / or our suppliers. We would like you to share our business using a link directly to our pages. The copy or any other form of use of all or part of the content may only be done by written authorization or as permitted by law. For other terms please see here.