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Legal review of draft law on regulation for OTT-services in Russia

Relevant committee of Russian state duma made legal analysis of draft law providing regulation for OTT services in Russia. This analysis explains why and how the draft must be improved. For example, the draft law prescribes to introduce a registry of audio-visual services in Russia, but it does not define its legal status and purposes.

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Proposal for regulation on the exercise of copyright and related rights for online transmissions of broadcasting in EU – what it’s all about

The ancillary online services covered by this Regulation are those services offered by broadcasting organisations which have a clear and subordinate relationship to the broadcast. They include services giving access to television and radio programmes in a linear manner simultaneously to the broadcast and services giving access, within a defined time period after the broadcast, to television and radio programmes which have been previously broadcast by the broadcasting organisation (so-called catch-up services).

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Amendments to coherent EU policy for cultural and creative industries – fighting piracy and facilitating to legal offer of content

Piracy and counterfeiting remain a serious concern for CCIs and citizens alike. These illicit activities can cause safety and health concerns for consumers, jeopardise the financing of cultural creation and the maintaining of a strong European cultural diversity and are often linked to organised crime.

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Australian copyright law review – with a fair use exception the right questions could be asked

An Australian copyright law review committee recommended the introduction of fair use in 1998. Almost 30 existing exceptions could be repealed, if fair use were enacted. In time, others might also be repealed. Replacing so many exceptions with a single fairness exception will make the Copyright Act considerably more clear, coherent and principled.

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Public comment on collective rights management rules review by the Council of Music Creators

The Consent Decrees of ASCAP and BMI were originally devised to prevent either of the PROs from exercising too much market power over music users and raising prices beyond a level which they might achieve in an open market. For nearly 60 years they achieved this purpose, providing users with an efficient way to license a vast repertory, music creators and their publishers with an efficient system for the collection and distribution of license fees, and consumers with access to the repertoire of protected works.

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What right holders are so concerned about in Russia in relation to new features of legal services?

Different services and companies in Russia clear copyright in content like music or video in order to provide their services consisting of entertainment content. The price for rights can be very high and the company, acquiring opportunity to use copyright protected content in its services, does not have any guarantee that its investments can be recouped.

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2017 Special 301 Report

The Special 301 Report (Report) is the result of an annual review of the state of IP protection and enforcement in U.S. trading partners around the world, which the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) conducts pursuant to Section 182 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended by the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988, the Uruguay Round Agreements Act, and the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015 (19 U.S.C. § 2242).

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