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Public comment by National Music Publishers Association on collective rights management rules review

NMPA believes the consent decrees have become a significant impediment to a well-functioning market for licencing the performances of musical works, resulting in inefficient licencing and failing to provide fair market-based compensation for songwriters and music publishers.

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olé Media Management’s public comment on collective rights management rules review

Collective licensing is only viable where fair value is given for value received. olé believes that the Consent Decrees have become serious impediments to the attainment of fair compensation for music creators, particularly in relation to new media services. While new technologies have transformed the way people listen to music, the Consent Decrees have kept the collective licensing of musical works firmly rooted in the economics of another time.

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Russian ministry of culture intends to set up limits for distribution of movies in Russian cinemas

The core idea of new draft law, which is not presented to the public, is condition for distribution of movies in cinemas in Russia – not more than 35% of all film sessions during single day for one film in one cinema. Russian ministry of culture (MinCult) has only launched to develop draft law.

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Extending the scope of the geo-blocking prohibition: an economic assessment

On 25 May 2016, the European Commission presented a proposal for a regulation on addressing unjustified geo-blocking. New analytical paper illustrates the prevalence of geo-blocking in e-commerce and summarizes available relevant evidence. It also discusses the economic impact of lifting geo-blocking restrictions in online goods and copyrighted digital content services.

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Russian Ministry of culture wants to clear Russian market from “low-budget foreign movies”

Russian ministry of culture (MinCult) and Russian movie producers have agreed that in order to distribute movie in cinemas the distributor of such movie, regardless of whether this movie is of Russian production or foreign production, like Hollywood, must pay not less than 5 million Russian roubles for permission.

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Russian e-commerce strategy does not provide blocking of online–stores

Developers of Russian e-commerce strategy 2017-2018 decided to make it more democratic and drafted it softly in relation to regulation of distance trade. “The main purpose of strategy is stimulation of trade, but not its restriction”, – explained person knowing the real reasons of new changes in draft document.

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Australian copyright law review – alternative to fair use exception, specific exceptions and orphan works

An alternative exception, should fair use not be enacted, is also recommended: a ‘new fair dealing’ exception that consolidates the existing fair dealing exceptions and provides that fair dealings for certain new purposes do not infringe copyright.

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EU final report on the E-commerce Sector Inquiry

On 6 May 2015, the Commission launched a sector inquiry into the electronic commerce (‘e-commerce’) of consumer goods and digital content in the EU (‘e-commerce sector inquiry’). For the purposes of the e-commerce sector inquiry, requests for information (‘questionnaires’) were addressed to stakeholders between June 2015 and March 2016. Respondents submitted in total 2 605 agreements related to the distribution of consumer goods and 6 426 licensing agreements related to the distribution of digital content.

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The UK music 2017 manifesto

UK Music is the umbrella organisation which represents the collective interests of the UK’s commercial music industry from artists, musicians, songwriters and composers, to record labels, music managers, music publishers, studio producers, music licensing organisations and the live music industry. It has published manifesto, outlining the main necessities of industry. Here they are.

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