Questão jurídica principal
Whether the defendant owed copyright remuneration under GT 8/VI despite denying actual use of protected works.
Decisão extraída
Yes. A user covered by the tariff owes the lump-sum remuneration regardless of the number of copies actually made, even if no protected work was copied in a given year.
Fundamentação extraída
The court relied on federal case law that the tariff obligation applies to holders of copying equipment within the tariff scope without regard to actual copying volume.