Satellite and Cable Directive
The Satellite and Cable Directive (frequently shortened to SatCab Directive[1]), formally the Council Directive 93/83/EEC of 27 September 1993 on the coordination of certain rules concerning copyright and rights related to copyright applicable to satellite broadcasting and cable retransmission, is a European Union directive that governs the application of copyright and related rights to satellite and cable television in the European Union.An author has the exclusive right to authorise or prohibit the broadcasting of his or her works by satellite (Art. 2).[2] The main effect of the Directive is to stipulate that cable retransmission must be on the basis of contractual, not statutory, licences with copyright holders, although existing statutory licence schemes were permitted to remain in force until the end of 1997 (Art. 8).9(1)], which effectively makes such societies compulsory: a collecting society may be deemed to be mandated to manage the cable retransmission rights of a copyright holder in the absence of any expressive agreement [Art. 9(2)].The Directive also provides for mediation in disputes between cable operators and collecting societies (Art.