Judgment_paragraph 40 · Reha Training Gesellschaft für Sport- und Unfallrehabilitation mbH v Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs- und mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte eV (GEMA) (C-117/15)

40Secondly, in order to fall within the concept of ‘communication to the public’, within the meaning of Article 3(1) of Directive 2001/29, it is necessary, as stated in paragraph 37 of the present judgment, that protected works must actually be communicated to a ‘public’.