Not only Russian copyright, broadcast and digital law
Russian business publishing house Kommersant has organised panel discussion “Internet and law”. The Russian Senator Ludmila Bokova has been invited. She explained the difference between cinema and torrents. Why torrents are more popular than cinemas? Internet users don’t need to pay for torrents, which are cheaper than prices of tickets to cinema.
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This bill amends federal copyright law to extend a sound recording copyright owner’s rights to include the exclusive right to perform or authorize the performance of the recording publicly by means of any audio transmission, thereby requiring terrestrial AM/FM broadcast radio stations that play copyrighted sound recordings to pay royalties for the nondigital audio transmissions of the recordings.
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Digital technologies have transformed the distribution of and access to copyright-protected content through a growing variety of online services. However, the availability of online content differs from one Member State to another and citizens are often not able to access content across borders.
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The CMOs should have the ability alone or in association with other rights administration entities (such as the pre-existing Harry Fox agency) to bundle the performing and the mechanical right for blanket licensing to music users in a transparent manner using common unique works identifiers for the musical compositions to promote transparency and facilitate accurate data matching.
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A free and pluralist press is essential to ensure quality journalism and citizens’ access to information. It provides a fundamental contribution to public debate and the proper functioning of a democratic society. In the transition from print to digital, publishers of news publications are facing problems in licencing the online use of their news publications and recouping their investments. In the absence of recognition of publishers of news publications as right holders, licencing in the digital environment and online enforcement is often complex and inefficient.
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There has been published a very useful guide for consumers and for anyone who is curious about copyright. This guide explains different things, relating to IP rights, in simple way. The project has been commissioned by the European Union intellectual property office.
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Russian IP ombudsman, Anatoly Semenov, proposed to eliminate criminal liability for copyright infringement for cases where person infringed copyright in software without intention to sell or distribute it. In other words if person has installed pirated software on computer and does not disseminate it or does not sell it to other persons, such person should not be held criminally responsible.
The purpose of the proposed Regulation is to implement the Union’s obligations under the Marrakesh Treaty in respect of the exchange of accessible format copies between the Union and third countries that are parties to the Marrakesh Treaty, for the benefit of beneficiary persons.
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The Consent Decrees are not only outdated, they are obsolete. With new delivery systems for music emerging almost daily, the only possible way to keep pace is in the marketplace. Allowing the marketplace to develop new and innovative music licensing and collection models is the path to establishing true competition.
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Russian ministry of culture (MinCult) proposed hard measures to fight piracy in internet – blocking of access to web-sites, disseminating Russian national films in violation of Russian law, within two days without court order. These measures can be included in new draft law on blocking of access to mirrors of pirate website.
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