Not only Russian copyright, broadcast and digital law
For the purposes of Directive, works and other subject-matter should be considered to be permanently in the collection of a cultural heritage institutions when copies are owned or permanently held by the cultural heritage institution, for example as a result of a transfer of ownership or licence agreements.
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In 2015, customs authorities made over 81.000 detentions, consisting of a total of 43.7 million articles. The domestic retail value of the detained articles represented over 640 million euros. This report contains statistical information about the detentions made under customs procedures and includes data on the description, quantities and value of the goods, their provenance, the means of transport and the type of intellectual property right that may have been infringed.
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People like good music, movies and other entertaining content, especially when the interest to such content is really high thanks to advertisement or high ratings. Producing of such content requires time and money and right holders expect to make good money on their assets. And when they see their content on pirate website, certainly they make everything, what they can, in order to block the access to their content disseminated illegally.
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The Copyright Office should remain part of the Legislative Branch where it can provide independent and timely advice to Congress on copyright law and policy. Furthermore, the Copyright Office should have autonomy over its budget and technology needs.
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SOCAN is Canada’s music performing rights society. Pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Canadian Copyright Act (the “Acf’), SOCAN carries on the business, on a not-for-profit basis, of granting licences for the public performance and communication to the public by telecommunication of musical works in Canada.
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A legal, financial, organizational and technical environment that is conducive to the preservation of works and other subject-matter in the digital environment, as well as their digitisation and dissemination by cultural heritage institutions, is depend on a variety of factors.
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Enforcement of intellectual property rights (IPRs) is not merely a driver for jobs and growth across the Union but is essential for the proper functioning of the single market, especially in view of factors such as share of EU GDP, employment, and the range of industries which benefit from and exploit IPRs, and plays a key role in stimulating innovation, creativity, competitiveness and cultural diversity.
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In view of a potentially high number of access requests to and downloads of their works or other subject-matter, rightsholders should be allowed to apply measures where there is risk that the security and integrity of the system or databases where the works or other subject-matter are hosted would be jeopardised.
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Rapporteur welcomes (de) the EU Action Plan on the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and, in particular, emphasises the importance of and supports the application of due diligence throughout the supply chain, the ‘follow the money’ approach, the improvement of civil enforcement procedures for SMEs as regards IP, the targeted communication campaign and the focus on commercial-scale IPR infringements.
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Russian association of movie and television producers (APKiT) proposed new measure to fight piracy. But this measure would affect many market players in Russia, even those who has nothing in common with piracy and even with such content like movies, music or images.
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