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Newspaper Licensing Agency (“NLA”) is a company formed to manage the intellectual property rights of its members by licensing, and collecting the licensing fees for, making copies of newspaper content and for these purposes has promulgated various licensing schemes. NLA was formed in 1995, primarily with a view to licensing press cuttings agencies to make copies of newspaper articles to send to their clients and to license the clients to make their own copies.
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CJSC “Roust Inc.” is the proprietor of a number of trade mark registrations for marks comprising or including the word mark RUSSIAN STANDARD. The registrations cover a wide variety of goods and services including vodka. Russian Standard, Inc. uses some domain names, such as russian-standard.com, russian-standard.net, russianstandart.com and russianstandart.net, to offer its services.
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The six well-know studios (Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Universal City Studios Productions LLLP, Warner Bros. Entertainment INC., Paramount Pictures Corporation, Disney Enterprises, INC., Columbia Pictures Industries, INC.) sued Newzbin Limited for infringement of copyright arising from the operation of a website called Newzbin on a world wide internet discussion system called Usenet.
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One Russian famous writer, the author of Prostokvashino, Eduard Uspensky has published an open letter to Russian president. The letter is some kind of “the cry of writer’s soul” because his copyright is not respected from his point of view. Actually the letter titles “I don’t have the right to receive remuneration for t-shirt with Cheburashka (books character)”. The reason of this letter is production of new series of Prostokvashino by Russian Souzmultfilm, but without participation of Uspensky.
Comments closedMember States are required to enable the competent judicial authorities to order the infringer who knowingly, or with reasonable grounds to know, engaged in an infringing activity to pay the rightholder damages appropriate to the actual prejudice suffered by him as a result of the infringement. Where the infringer acted not knowingly, or without reasonable grounds to know, Member States have the possibility to enable the judicial authorities to order the recovery of profits or the payment of damages, which may be pre-established.
Comments closedOption 1 could facilitate the clearance of rights and reduce transaction costs for cross-border online transmissions only on the basis of voluntary agreements concluded between rightholders, CMOs and broadcasters. The effectiveness of such agreements would depend on the sectors’ willingness to license rights collectively (which may be limited in the case of AV works).
Comments closedThe Copyright Act defines a compilation as “a work formed by the collection and assembling of preexisting materials or of data that are selected, coordinated or arranged in such a way that the resulting work as a whole constitutes an original work of authorship.”
Comments closedCastle Collection sought to enjoin the distribution and sale of the children’s book, “Silent Days, Silent Dreams”. The Book is written and illustrated by Allen Say and published by Arthur A. Levine, an imprint of Scholastic.
Comments closedRussian Federal Antitrust Service believes they can. Elena Zaeva, the main person in service’s department of communication and informational technologies, stated that the service has revealed the opportunity of search engines, namely Yandex and Google, to affect search results “manually”. But the service did not reveal violation of current Russian law, but it monitors the situation.
Comments closedTill the end of 2019 there should be regulated identification of internet of things (IoT) in Russia. Such measure is provided in Russian strategy for “Digital economy”. It was stated that it is not about to identify users, who have devices of IoT, but things themselves. For each device, thing connected to internet, an individual identifier should be allocated.
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