The National Court archives the SGAE 'Rueda' case eight years later | EUROtoday

The National viewers has issued the provisional dismissal and subsequent archiving of the investigation of the so-called case of the wheelwhich affected a number of companions of the General Society of Authors and Editors (SGAE) and 14 televisions, together with EiTBgreater than eight years after the primary complaints about alleged fraud within the assortment of copyrights.

The order signed by the decide Ismael Morenohead of the investigating court docket quantity 2 of the National viewerssignifies that “there are not sufficient indications” that show that these investigated have dedicated the crimes charged and that the Prosecutor's Office had requested the dismissal of the case.

The name “Television Wheel” It consisted of the gathering of copyrights for the printed of public area songs registered with minimal or no modifications, often within the early morning hours.

It was estimated that the fraud investigated, similar to the interval between 2006 and 2011, might quantity to at the very least 100 million euros. The chains investigated had been RTVE, Atresmedia, Mediaset, Channel On, Television of Extremadura, Radio and tv of the Principality of Asturias, Television of Galicia, Radiotelevisin de Aragn, Television of the Balearic Islands, EITB, Telemadrid, Public Television of the Canary Islands, Radio and tv of Castilla y León y Television of Castilla La Mancha.

And additionally correct names like Jose Miguel Fernndez Sastrnwho presides over it SGAE between 2016 and 2018, the composer Rafael de Tena and the managers of a collection of economic firms by means of which they operated. They had been accused, along with the improper assortment and the damages triggered to different companions, of acquiring voting rights within the meeting of the corporate with their “machinations.” SGAE that perpetuated them in energy.

The assortment of tv rights within the evening time slot got here to signify 50% of the earnings of the whole schedule. The mental property legislation restricted it to twenty% and the SGAE itself diminished it in 2022 to fifteen%, a change promoted below the presidency of Antonio Onetti.