Constitutional committee of Russian state duma believes additional responsibility and fines for owners of news aggregators are too excessive. Moreover fines are not proportionate to provisions of Russian administrative code. Committee members also mentioned there is no definition of “news…
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Russian Media-Communication Union (MCU) developed draft law aiming to exclude standard way for right holders to get royalty for use of their music in TV and movies (synchronisation licencing). Copy of this draft law has obtained Vedomosti. Industry is discussing this legislative initiative. Actually it was made in response to Russian state accreditation. If you can’t beat it – eliminate it. This proposition is of “preliminary character”.
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This draft law, as it is promised, will lose its provisions requiring news aggregators to verify information prior to publish it. Interfax was told by Leonid Levin, chairman of Russian state duma committee on informational policy, informational technologies and connection. All main companies-news aggregators have provided their assessments of, opinions on and propositions for this legislative initiative.
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Social security fees must be paid from royalties collected in behalf of authors by collecting societies in Russia. Russian CMOs have not paid these social security fees to Russian pension fund within three last years. According to letter obtained by Vedomosti, and written by Anton Dronov, chairman of Russian Pension Fund, to Andrey Pudov, deputy of minister of labor and social security, Russian state pension fund wants to get these monies.
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The chief of Russian Roskomnadzor Alexandr Zharov believes online cinemas in Russia should be regulated in the same way as is regulated traditional TV in Russia. “I believe streaming video-services are another step in development of (traditional) TV broadcast and (nontraditional) TV broadcast. Therefore it is necessary to work over the issues how to regulate near traditional TV.” Media-communication Union developed a draft law to regulate work of online cinemas in Russia.
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He advised to establish some analogue of USSR State Cinematography (StateCinema), a Single Cinematography Center. This structure would be the only authority to invest movies. Now we have Russian ministry of culture (MinCult) and Cinematography Fund – “it is know-how without any analogue in the world”.
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Russian internet company Yandex has launched its service Yandex.Radio about one year ago. In this service Yandex made special section “Like on Radio” in order to make the choice of music more convenient and simpler for its users. This section has been made with intention to help user to find suitable for him style or type of music similar with musical format of popular radio stations, like “Europa plus”, “Silver Rain” and others. Some radio station owners did not like it.
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