In Amazon dispute, EU Court of Justice rules that levies on blank CDs can be collected 'in some cases'

Amazon's spent quite a bit of time in court as of late; in addition to a recently settled trademark dispute with Apple, a row with an Austrian copyright collection agency is keeping the e-tailer busy. Today, the European Court of Justice ruled that, in some cases, EU countries can collect a levy on blank recording media to ensure that musicians are compensated for their work. The key phrase here is "in some cases," since establishing whether CDs, memory cards, cassette tapes and other media have...