Having regard to the freedoms established in the TFEU, collective management of copyright and related rights should entail a rightholder being able freely to choose a collective management organisation for the management of his rights, whether those rights be rights of communication to the public or reproduction rights, or categories of rights related to forms of exploitation such as broadcasting, theatrical exhibition or reproduction for online distribution, provided that the collective management organisation that the rightholder wishes to choose already manages such rights or categories of rights.

Taking due account of that balance, rightholders should be able easily to withdraw such rights or categories of rights from a collective management organisation and to manage those rights individually or to entrust or transfer the management of all or part of them to another collective management organisation or another entity, irrespective of the Member State of nationality, residence or establishment of the collective management organisation, the other entity or the rightholder.

1. Member States shall ensure that where a rightholder authorises a collective management organisation to manage his rights, the collective management organisation is required to provide the rightholder with information on management fees and other deductions from the rights revenue and from any income arising from the investment of rights revenue, before obtaining his consent to its managing his rights.

There was one significant difference in the Gatineau Park agreement, however: Quebec contributed only the management rights over 4,000 hectares of forests and lakes in exchange for the management rights over urban land owned by the Government of Canada and chosen as the site of a provincial college.

Four principles must be observed: - whatever the technical specifications of the satellite whereby individual reception is possible, satellite broadcasting of a programme must be subject to authorization by the person holding the rights to that programme; - a broadcaster wishing to transmit a programme by satellite must acquire the rights to that programme from the holder of those rights in the country in which he is established; - as all holders of rights must be guaranteed an equivalent level of protection throughout the Community, it is essential that copyright and associated rights are managed on a contractual basis; - the fee to ...[+++]be paid must take account of the potential or actual audience within the satellite "footprint".

However, it was held that this right did not include the right to raise taxes without the restrictions of a referendum, the right to choose the language of instruction, the right to control the course of study, or, as reflected in the final case on Bill 107, the right to the management and control of education as sought by the litigants.