Roszczenie o zapłatę wielokrotności stosownego wynagrodzenia w prawie autorskim : głos w obronie status quo na dzień przed wyrokiem Trybunału Konstytucyjnego

The claim for payment of the multiple amount of the respective remuneration under copyright law – the voice in defense of the status quo the day before the date of the Constitutional Tribunal’s judgment.
The article contains the response to the criticism of the solution regulated under article 79 section 1 point 3 letter b of the Copyright and Related Rights Act made before the Constitutional Tribunal rendered its judgment of 23 June 2015 repealing he above-mentioned legal provision. The genesis of article 79 section 1 point 3 letter b leads to the conclusion that it constituted an autonomous institution of the Polish copyright law. In particular, the claim for payment of a triple amount of the respective remuneration, where the copyright infringement is culpable, was not of a penal nature, neither was it contradictory to the Polish model of liability for damages, moreover at the same time, it was in accordance with the provisions of the Directive 2004/48/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the enforcement of intellectual property rights.