Colega profesora:
Échale un vistazo a las las conclusiones de Kokott sobre la libre circulación de los descodificadores en el mercado interior: si quieres ver la Premier más barata, cómprate el abono en Grecia, llévate el descodificador a Gran Bretaña y te ahorras una pasta. Libre circulación versus derechos de exclusiva,
JA:
“Ya la he visto. Mi impresión es que no tendrá ningún efecto, solo obligará a cambiar los contratos: venderán los derechos para Gran Bretaña y para el resto del mundo en el mismo paquete. Y a los griegos les saldrá más caro ver la liga inglesa, si quieren verla, porque le cobrarán lo mismo que a los ingleses. Es lo de distorsionar apretando por un lado, lo único que se consigue es que lo que has apretado se deforme por otro”.
CP
“En efecto, frente a lo que dice el abogado de la recurrente (libre competencia en el mercado interior, reducción de precios, …), lo que se hará es vender los partidos al mismo precio en todo el mercado interior y de esta manera, suprimen el incentivo a la reimportación. Problemas: por una parte, qué pasará cuando a buena parte de los griegos que veían la Premier se les vuelva demasiado cara (florecimiento del sustitutivo de "contrabando": en este caso webs tipo "Roja directa") y, por otra, qué pasará cuando los de la Premier se queden sin determinados mercados porque los consumidores no estén dispuestos a pagar tanto por el fútbol inglés como los ingleses. Al final, ya verás como son los consumidores ingleses los que terminan pagando los platos rotos de la eventual pérdida de dichos mercados...
Pablo Ibáñez Colomo en Chilling competition:
“I read yesterday Advocate General Kokott’s opinion in Joined Cases C‑403/08 and C‑429/08, already referred to by Alfonso a couple of days ago. Following a wholly unprecedented line of reasoning, the opinion seems to propose to overrule the principle, laid down in Coditel I, according to which the exhaustion doctrine does not apply to the exploitation of the copyright in the form of a communication to the public. The logic underlying this well-established rule is so sensible and obvious that I have little doubt that this opinion has been received as a complete surprise by all EU lawyers.
The fact that such a proposal is clearly unsound (both from a legal and an economic perspective) made me reflect on more general questions relating to the art of judging, with regards, in particular, to economic law issues, such as competition law or copyright.
Y Zöttl en Kartellblog
Y la propia Kokkot
201. It could, finally, be argued, to counter this approach, that it could make access to transmissions of football matches more difficult. If the FAPL cannot prevent the use of cheaper decoder cards from other Member States, the possibility cannot be discounted that in future it will offer transmission rights only in the most lucrative market in the European Union – the United Kingdom – or make the service offered on other markets conditional on the charging of prices similar to those in the United Kingdom. It would then be more difficult to gain access to the transmissions in Member States such as Greece.
202. That would be an economic decision to be taken by the holder of the rights, however. It will ultimately depend on how that holder can best exploit his rights on the whole. In this regard it would appear relevant in particular whether alternative marketing models can be developed, as the Commission demands, or whether restricting the commentary to certain language versions might create a sufficiently effective practical delimitation of the markets in order to continue to serve the different national markets at different prices.