Cari tutti, vorrei segnalarvi che l'AG della Corte Europea di Giustizia, Marianne Kokott, ha da poco depositato la propria opinione nel caso C-403/08 Football Association Premier League and Other. Vi cito alcuni passaggi fondamentali, rimandandovi al link per una sintesi del caso, che riguarda il diritto esclusivo dei broadcaster di segmentare il mercato su base nazionale (e dunque di impedire al gestore di un pub in Inghilterra di comprare decoder meno costosi in Grecia): http://curia.europa.eu/jurisp/cgi-bin/form.pl?lang=en&newform=newform&jurcdj... "171. Freedom to provide services requires the abolition of all restrictions on the free provision of services, even if those restrictions apply without distinction to national service providers and to those from other Member States, in so far as they are liable to prohibit, impede or render less advantageous the activities of a service provider established in another Member State where it lawfully provides similar services. Moreover, the freedom to provide services covers both providers and recipients of services. (60) 172. In the present cases, the question whether the providers of television programmes are required to grant access to interested parties from other Member States on conditions comparable to those for nationals does not arise. Such an obligation would require freedom to provide services to have effect vis-à-vis third parties, something which the Court has not thus far accepted, at least in this form. (61) 173. It is also not relevant whether the providers of television programmes are authorised to restrict access to their programmes contractually to certain territories. (62) Such contractual rules can have effect only between the contracting parties. However, in the present cases there are no contractual relations between the rights-holders and the providers of decoder cards in the United Kingdom or the publicans. 174. Rather, it is uncertain whether freedom to provide services permits the recognition and enforcement of rights to satellite programmes on the basis of which the rights-holders can prohibit third parties not contractually linked to them from watching and showing those programmes in Member States other than those intended. By virtue of such rights, the utilisation of services from other Member States would be prevented, namely access to television programmes. 175. This impairment of freedom to provide services is particularly intensive as the rights in question not only render the exercise of freedom to provide services more difficult, but also have the effect of partitioning the internal market into quite separate national markets. Similar problems exist with regard to access to other services, for example the sale of computer software, musical works, e-books or films via the internet. 176. There is thus a serious impairment of freedom to provide services." Questa è solo l'opinione dell'AG, ma è inutile che sottolinei l'impatto potenziale di una decisione della Corte Europea di Giustizia che seguisse le conclusioni della Kokott. Ciao, Andrea