Belgian promoters win legal victory over tariffs
A court has fined Sabam up to €1m for unfair commercial practices over its unilateral increase in Belgium's festival and concert tariffs in 2017
News By | 23 April 2018
Last year’s unpopular hike in live music tariffs by Sabam constituted unfair commercial practices, a Brussels court has ruled, handing a legal win to the Belgian festival sector.
A coalition of Belgian festival and concert promoters filed a lawsuit against Sabam, Belgium’s performance rights organisation (PRO), last May after tariffs were increased across the board, with the largest festivals seeing their payments to Sabam increase 30% as of 1 January 2017. The increase in both the festival and concert…
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