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Month: April 2018

Draft Recommendation on the roles and responsibilities of internet intermediaries

A wide, diverse and rapidly evolving range of actors, commonly referred to as internet intermediaries, facilitate interactions on the internet between natural persons and between natural and legal persons by offering and performing a variety of functions and services. Some connect users to the internet, enable the processing of information and data, or host web-based services, including for user-generated content.

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Russian state duma can make laws on blocking of web-sites more tough if necessary

Recently the Russian court has decided to block access to Telegram messenger. Some are glad to this decision, some are not. Users have reacted differently: some part of them have changed messenger, some part of them has laughed and switched on their VPN. Some people, who make money through telegram, hope users residing in Russia will use VPN.

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SWD IA on EU copyright modernisation – Impacts of option 2 on availability of EU AV on VOD

Stakeholders’ dialogue (Option 1) + Obligation for Member States to establish a negotiation mechanism to overcome obstacles to the availability of audiovisual works on VoD

The negotiation mechanism would exclusively address copyright-related issues and would complement measures provided for in the AVMS Directive review for the promotion of European works. The negotiation mechanism would address individual cases of lack of availability and complements the general approach pursued by the stakeholder dialogue.

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Third edition of USA copyright office compendium – legal materials

Certain types of legal materials may be registered with the U.S. Copyright Office if they contain a sufficient amount of original expression. Certain types of legal materials may be registered as a compilation if the author exercised a sufficient amount of creativity in selecting, coordinating, and/or arranging the preexisting materials that appear within the deposit.

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Russian government proposed to exhaust USA trademarks rights in Russia as the answer to USA sanctions

The Russian government has decided to introduce its own sanctions as answer to USA’ sanctions and has proposed new law. The aim of draft law is to protect the national interests and security of Russia, the rights and freedoms of Russian citizens by way of measures preventing unfriendly and illegal action of foreign countries. The measures, provided in draft law, are mandatory for Russian state and local authorities, for Russian citizens and for legal entities under Russian jurisdiction.

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Russian Ministry of culture “knows” where you can find illegal copies of movies in internet

It has been received a permission to distribute one movie, the Death of Stalin, in Russian cinemas. But then, due to “public opinion”, the permission has been revoked. The reasons is not so interesting, the most interesting is the fact, that Russian ministry of culture (MinCult), the authority supervising distribution of movies in Russian cinemas, knows where to watch the illegal copy of this film in internet.

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Initial proposal to make social networks responsible for user generated content in Russia

The main declared purpose of proposed law is to create effective mechanism which could preclude dissemination of illegal information in social networks. That states explanatory note to the draft law. According to explanation note social networks can significantly affect public opinion, at least. Users of social networks play a vital role – they upload, create and generate content. Therefore there are should be at least two subjects of regulation.

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Significant part of products in Russian light industry is counterfeited

It means approximately one third of all products in Russian light industry is illicit and counterfeited. Not all these products have been produced in Russia. Part of them has been imported thanks to weak customs control at the borders with China and countries of Eurasian economic union. According to Russian ministry of trade the illegal turnover in light industry counts up to 1.4 trillion Roubles.

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New research on legal aspects of exception for text and data mining in DSM directive – what rights can be concerned?

One of the basic and fundamental principles of copyright law is that data is as such not protected; copyright only protects the creative form not the information incorporated in the protected work. Thus, Text and Data Mining (TDM) should in principle not be a use covered by any exclusive intellectual property (IP) rights (IPRs), both copyright and other sui generis rights.

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