Not only Russian copyright, broadcast and digital law
The deputy of Russian minister of communication believes the Russian and Chinese mass media faces unfair competition, but he did not mention who is guilty thereof. According to his words, the Russian and Chinese mass media also face restrictions in disseminating of information. He believes it is time to think on cultivation of domestic alternatives to Twitter, Facebook, Viber, WhatsApp and other means of mass communication. The blockings are not effective.
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The chief of Russian book union asked the chief of Roskomandzor – the Russian internet watchdog – to assist in signing of antipiracy memorandum between book publishers and internet companies in order to fight piracy more effective. The antipiracy memo, signed between right holders and internet companies, covers only strict circle of right holders and only audio-visual works, the books and other types of copyrighted content are not included in memo.
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Platforms should be required to disclose the principles underlying the parameters determining ranking, but not the algorithms themselves, which should be considered to be trade secrets. It is similarly very important to distinguish between a transaction and the initiation of a transaction. A simple search for a product or service on a search engine should not be considered to be an initiation of a transaction but merely a request for information which could lead to the initiation of a transaction.
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Mandatory exception covering text and data mining for non-commercial scientific research purposes
Legislative intervention introducing a harmonised exception would increase legal certainty and reduce rights clearance costs. Researchers would be able to mine scientific publications subscribed to by their institution in full legal certainty as long as this is done for non-commercial scientific research. In addition, transaction costs for public interest research organisations could be considerably reduced.
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But they make efforts only in relation to Russian search engine and internet company Yandex. Google and other search engines are out of their interest. There are also search engines of Mail.ru and Rambler company. The association, representing the copyright interests of Russian major book publishers, has filed lawsuit against Yandex seeking to clear the search indexing from links to pirate web-sites.
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Russian major internet companies Yandex, Mail.ru, Rambler and RuTube together with Russian major audio-visual right holders Gazprom Media, National Media Group, First Channel, VGTRK, STS Media, association Internet Video and Association of movie and television producers have signed anti-piracy memorandum. This memorandum has been signed at the meeting hosted by Russian internet watchdog Roskomandzor.
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Russian Federal Antitrust Service (FAS) currently is working on amendments to Russian antitrust law in order to improve competition in online environment. The new set of amendments aims to restrict access to online resource if the last violate Russian antitrust law.
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The new draft law – amendments to Russian law on information, its protection and informational technologies – has been introduced to Russian state duma. These amendments aim to limit permissible ownership share in news aggregators, operating in Russia, for foreign persons. All major Russian-baked news services – Mail.ru and Yandex.News – do not comply with proposed requirements.
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Fostering industry self-regulation initiatives without changes to EU legal framework
Public interest research organisations could potentially benefit from more legal certainty as a result of a convergent industry approach to TDM fostered by the Commission through structured stakeholder dialogues. This could also limit to some extent the right-clearance costs. However, the effectiveness of this option is largely dependent on the willingness of the different parties to reach mutually satisfactory solutions.
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The League of safe internet proposed Russian authorities to penalize owners of social networks and search engines for dissemination of forbidden information in Russia. The specific of this proposal is binding the size of fine to turnover of social network or search engine. The fine could be up to 1-2% of annual turnover. Such penalty could destroy entire business of internet companies.
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