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Ehler’s and Morgano’s CCI report: copyright and counterfeiting in CCS

Published 23rd December 2016

Copyright is to the cultural and creative sector, what patents are to industry and technology. The protection of copyright is an element vital to the very survival of the creative industry. Despite the fact that more creative content is being consumed today than ever before (think of the record levels reached by the music), on services such as user-uploaded content platforms and content aggregation services, the creative sectors (among others rights holders, artists and producers) have not seen a comparable increase in revenues from this increase in consumption.

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When it is also important how your trademark is commercially strong

Published 22nd December 2016

Lee Jason Kibler, a disc jockey, brought federal trademark infringement, related state law, and federal trademark dilution claims against Robert Bryson Hall, II, a rapper, and professional entities supporting Hall’s work.

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Right holders want to make search engines to hide pirate sites in search results

Published 21st December 2016

Russian association of movie and television producers (APKiT) has developed antipiracy draft bill obliging search engines to delete links to pirate sites from indexing. This draft has been sent to Russian ministry of culture.

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Ehler’s and Morgano’s CCI report: framework conditions and fostering innovation

Published 20th December 2016

Report calls the Commission to introduce an umbrella scheme that bridges the gap between R&D, European creative content production and technological innovation in the media field and beyond; such an umbrella scheme would foster the production of creative and competitive EU services, and commercial and employment opportunities, and enhance access to market for SMEs and start-ups, while nourishing a pluralistic and diverse European landscape built on strong synergies between CCIs and technological innovation, thereby strengthening the European Digital Single Market.

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US copyright office proposes to improve supplementary registration

Published 19th December 2016

The U.S. Copyright Office is proposing to amend the regulation governing supplementary registration to reflect certain technical upgrades that will soon be made to the electronic registration system. In most cases applicants will be required to submit an online application in order to correct or amplify the information set forth in a basic registration.

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Presidential measures against counterfeits in Russia

Published 16th December 2016

Russian president has signed new decree “About additional measures on counteractions against illegal turnover of industrial products”. This decree sets up new state commission which will coordinate functioning of federal and regional executive authorities on counteractions against illegal import, manufacturing and turnover of industrial products, including counterfeits, and also on monitoring and assessment of situation in this field.

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Ehler’s and Morgano’s report on a coherent EU policy for cultural and creative industries

Published 15th December 2016

Cultural and creative industries (CCI) have dual and intrinsic value since, through their direct links to artists and creators, they preserve and promote cultural and linguistic diversity, and strengthen European, national, regional and local identities, while sustaining social cohesion and contributing substantially, with various value creation models, to creativity, investment, innovation and employment and acting as a driver of sustainable economic growth in the EU and its Member States.

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Proposal for a directive on contracts for the supply of digital content – termination

Published 14th December 2016

The supplier should be liable to the consumer for the lack of conformity with the contract and for any failure to supply the digital content. Moreover, given that digital content may be supplied over a period of time, it is justified that the supplier should be liable for any lack of conformity which occurs during that period.

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New long-term strategy to fight counterfeits in Russia

Published 13th December 2016

Counterfeits are an evil, as believes Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. He has signed new strategy to fight with this evil, which decreases tax and revenue and causes danger and insecurity for health and life of Russians. “Counterfeits interfere with creation civilised marketplace. It is impossible to measure precisely the scale of this disaster because illegal turnover is in gray economy. But according to different assessments in some fields of industries the scale of counterfeits can be up to 50%” – said Medvedev at governmental meeting.

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Ticket abuse in UK – some interesting things

Published 12th December 2016

At oral evidence Josh Franceschi said that fans are heading to primary ticket websites only to see that the shows or concerts are labelled as sold out, when often they are not, and they have to pay hiked-up prices on the secondary websites. He underlined the need of transparency as to who the primary seller is, because most of the secondary ticket websites in search are listed higher than the primary ticket websites.

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