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Month: November 2018

SWD IA on EU copyright modernisation – impacts of second option for text and data mining

Published 8th November 2018

Mandatory exception covering text and data mining for non-commercial scientific research purposes

Legislative intervention introducing a harmonised exception would increase legal certainty and reduce rights clearance costs. Researchers would be able to mine scientific publications subscribed to by their institution in full legal certainty as long as this is done for non-commercial scientific research. In addition, transaction costs for public interest research organisations could be considerably reduced.

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Third edition of USA copyright office compendium – Identifying the author of musical work

Published 7th November 2018

The author of a musical work (including any lyrics) is the creator of the music (and/or lyrics), not the person who merely transcribes the work. Transcribing or fixing a musical work in and of itself does not constitute authorship. Creating a recording of a musical work is not a form of musical work authorship in and of itself, although it may be a form of sound recording authorship if it contains sufficient creativity to constitute a copyrightable sound recording.

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Russian book publishers also endeavor to clear search results from pirate links

Published 6th November 2018

But they make efforts only in relation to Russian search engine and internet company Yandex. Google and other search engines are out of their interest. There are also search engines of Mail.ru and Rambler company. The association, representing the copyright interests of Russian major book publishers, has filed lawsuit against Yandex seeking to clear the search indexing from links to pirate web-sites.

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RMLC and TMLC on collective rights management rules review

Published 5th November 2018

The producers and syndicators of programming obtain and license to the stations with which they contract all of the copyright and other rights necessary to broadcast the programming (including those for creative inputs such as a script, choreography, acting and directing), with the sole exception of the non-dramatic public performance rights to the copyrighted music therein.

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Russian audio-visual right holders and internet companies have signed anti-piracy memorandum

Published 2nd November 2018

Russian major internet companies Yandex, Mail.ru, Rambler and RuTube together with Russian major audio-visual right holders Gazprom Media, National Media Group, First Channel, VGTRK, STS Media, association Internet Video and Association of movie and television producers have signed anti-piracy memorandum. This memorandum has been signed at the meeting hosted by Russian internet watchdog Roskomandzor.

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Restriction of access to web-resources is not effective in Russia

Published 1st November 2018

Russian law enforcement system applies restrictions in internet very broadly, namely restriction of access to web-resources. There is trend to apply such restriction without court order. Even blocking of VPNs does not help. People receive access to blocked web-sites, use VPN services emerging as an offer to demand, and mirrors of blocked web-sites appears in top positions of search results.

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