Referral C-182/24 (SACD and Others, 5 Mar 2024)

Question 1: Can Articles 2, 3, 4 and 8 of Directive 2001/29/EC of 22 May 2001, Articles 1 to 3 of Directive 2004/48/EC of 29 April 2004 and Articles 1, 2 and 9 of Directive 2006/116/EC of 12 December 2006, in so far as they guarantee to the author and co-author of a cinematographic or audiovisual work both the exclusive right to authorise or prohibit the reproduction of their works and the right of their communication to the public and a term of protection ending 70 years after the death of the last survivor amongst the collaborators of the work, at the same time as they require the Member States to provide for effective, proportionate and dissuasive sanctions and remedies which are appropriate in respect of copyright infringements, as well as for measures, procedures and remedies which are not unnecessarily complicated or costly, or which do not entail unreasonable time limits or give rise to unwarranted delays, be interpreted as meaning that an action for infringement of the copyright of a work of joint authorship, by its holder, requires, in order for it to be admissible, that all of the co-authors be joined to the proceedings?
Question 2: Must the copyright holder’s right to an effective judicial remedy and access to a court, a component of the right to a fair trial, as guaranteed, together, by Articles 2, 3, 4 and 8 of Directive 2001/29/EC of 22 May 2001, Articles 1 to 3 of Directive 2004/48/EC of 29 April 2004, Articles 1, 2 and 9 of Directive 2006/116/EC of 12 December 2006, Directive 2006/115 of 12 December 2006 and Articles 17 and 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, be interpreted as meaning that the admissibility of an action for infringement of copyright is, or is not, conditional on all of the coauthors of the work being joined to the proceedings?