In one of Roskomnadzor’s organisations, in Federal State Unitary Organisation (FGUP) “The main radio-frequency center”, has been created a special department. This department should discover, explore and analyse a different opportunities of restriction of access to different internet services. It would make practical experiments and research in the field of blocking of access to internet resources for ISP customers.
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The annual publication of the result of customs actions at the EU external borders provides an opportunity to measure the scale of customs actions to enforce IPR. Newly published report on EU customs enforcement on IPR 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.
Comments closedThree top executives of Russian Roskomnadzor are under investigation. Russian investigative committee has initiated a criminal case and leads investigation in relation to executives of Roskomnadzor. There are three persons involved in this case – Vadim Ampelonsky (press secretary of Roskomnadzor), Boris Edidin (chief of legal department at Roskomnadzor) and Aleksandr Veselchakov.
Comments closedOne of the biggest and popular torrent trackers, rutracker, started to instruct its users how to access it, even if Russian internet service providers (ISP) have restricted access to rutracker and its mirrors under court order in Russia.
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Russian Ministry of Culture has proposed to restrict access to pirate web-sites available in Russia without court order. Actually there are a lot of MinCult’s ideas (1,2) aiming to protect intellectual property in Russia and fight with digital piracy. Russian company Yandex believes MinCult’s proposal provides search engines with authority and functions similar to those of courts.
Comments closedRussian Ministry of Culture (MinCult) has proposed amendments to Russian copyright law in order to shut down pirate web-sites very fast and without bureaucracy. According to these amendments, operator of search engine must publish on web-site of search engine its trading name, place and address of residence and email address for communication.
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Former CEO of Russian authors’ society, Sergey Fedotov, has been found guilty for the fraud. 19th of September Russian court in Moscow has announced the verdict. One and half year imprisonment according to the sentence.
Comments closedAccording to its chief, Aleksandr Zharov, 3700 illegal torrent trackers and online cinemas have been blocked in Russia, the access to 234 of them has been restricted forever. Now the turn is of pirated resources which are not regulated in Russian law.
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Russian association of online retailers (AKIT) has developed new amendments to Russian law. These amendments aim to impose additional tax on online outlets selling goods in Russian marketplace. If the companies, who would be obliged to pay new tax, will not pay this tax, the access to their web-sites, i.e. online trading platforms, will be restricted in Russia by Roskomnadzor at the request of Russian tax service.
Comments closedWhen Russian president has mentioned his concerns about the scales of counterfeits in Russian light industry, the Prosecutor General’s office has reported its achievements and statistics demonstrating what has been done. According to office it was revealed 19 thousands violations of law, including organization of illegal migration and violations of rules in the field of public procurement.
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