Ocena zgodności z Konstytucją RP niektórych przepisów ustawy o prawie autorskim i prawach pokrewnych

The provisions subject to the assessment of the Constitutional Tribunal concern the extent to which the rightholder, whose copyrights have been infringed, may require the person who infringed those rights to repair the damage by payment of a sum of money in the amount equivalent to two times of an appropriate salary, which would be due because of the authorized person’s consent to use the work. In its question of law, the Supreme Court questioned the claimed a nonconformity to the Constitution of provisions of the Act to the extent that it “imposes an obligation to pay twice the appropriate remuneration to the entity entitled under the economic copyright”. In the draft position of the Sejm it has been claimed, that the provision mentioned above conforms to the Constitution.