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Retrospective: Collective rights management in the Digital Single Market – summary of responses to technical review

Published 27th April 2017

The Directive’s main objective is to ensure that collective management organisations (“CMOs”) act in the best interests of the rightholders they represent. The Directive sets out the standards that CMOs must meet to ensure that they act in the best interests of the rightholders they represent. It establishes some fundamental protections for rightholders, including those who are not members of CMOs. These include detailed requirements for the way in which rights revenues are collected and paid, how the monies are handled, and how deductions are made.

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Consumers’ FAQs on copyright: what are copyright levies?

Published 26th April 2017

There has been published a very useful guide for consumers and for anyone who is curious about copyright. This guide explains different things, relating to IP rights, in simple way. The project has been commissioned by the European Union intellectual property office.

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Sometimes Russian Roskomnadzor handles disputes on copyright infringement much better than courts

Published 25th April 2017

National sport channel has asked the court to apply “interim measures” in relation to web-site sports.ru in order to protect copyright in broadcasting television programs of “NTV Plus Sport” and “Our Football”. In other words, company asked the court to block web-site for copyright infringement of TV channels. The claimant asserts its programs were streamed without proper consent of right holder.

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Draft proposal for a directive on copyright in DSM – transparency obligation

Published 25th April 2017

Certain right holders such as authors and performers need information to assess the economic value of their rights which are harmonised under Union law. This is especially the case where such right holders grant a licence or a transfer of rights in return for remuneration.

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Allegations can’t serve as an evidence of copyright infringement

Published 24th April 2017

Microsoft Company is very famous and its products are widespread around the world, including Russia. The most popular program Windows has been installed in different versions on many millions of devices, and the fact is that not all copies of this program are duly licenced. In other words this program is installed and used on devices (who knows how many of them?) without any licence payment to Microsoft.

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Public comment by National Religious Broadcasting Music License Committee concerning review of rules on collective rights management

Published 19th April 2017

Consent Decrees remain essential to foster competitive market pricing for music performance rights. SESAC exercises substantial market power as a licensing collective and should be subject to regulation comparable to that to which ASCAP and BMI are subject. Copyright law principles and market structure coalesce to eliminate competition in the marketplace for music performance rights. These combined factors give the PROs enormous market power insulated from competitive forces.

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Online Platforms and the Digital Single Market

Published 18th April 2017

Online platforms have dramatically changed the digital economy over the last two decades and bring many benefits in today’s digital society. They play a prominent role in the creation of ‘digital value’ that underpins future economic growth in the EU and consequently are of major importance to the effective functioning of the digital single market.

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Consumers’ FAQs on copyright: downloading from internet

Published 17th April 2017

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Russian Yandex musical streaming service is accused of copyright infringement

Published 14th April 2017

“Russian Google” Yandex, owning and operating musical streaming service Yandex.Music, has been accused of copyright infringement by Russian company “SO/Era Music” Ltd. Era music seeks 5.5 million roubles for copyright infringement. Era music filed suit.

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Draft proposal for a directive on copyright in DSM – online services and right holders

Published 14th April 2017

Online services providing access to copyright protected content uploaded by their users without the involvement of right holders have flourished and have become main sources of access to content online. This affects right holders’ possibilities to determine whether, and under which conditions, their work and other subject-matter are used as well as their possibilities to get an appropriate remuneration for it.

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