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Russian Ministry of communication’s draft proposal for collective management rights reform

Actually there are two proposal and both are different. Let’s take a look at the first of them. The draft law proposed certain amendments to regulation of collective rights management. These amendments concern collecting societies received state accreditation. First of all under new proposal such CMO must be non-profit organisation.

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What YouTube-ripper website is accused by recording companies of?

Record companies (UMG Recordings, Inc.; Capitol Records, LLC; Warner Bros. Records Inc.; Warner Music Latina Inc.; Sony Music Entertainment; Sony Music Entertainment US Latin LLC; Arista Records LLC; Atlantic Recording Corporation; Elektra Entertainment Group Inc.; Fueled by Ramen, LLC; Kemosabe Records LLC; LaFace Records LLC; Nonesuch Records Inc.; WEA International Inc.; and Zomba Recording LLC) filed a suit against persons owning and operating website “YouTube-mp3” (“YTMP3”), www.youtube-mp3.org.

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JASRAC’s public comment on collective management rules review

The Law on Management Business of Copyright and Neighboring Rights (hereafter referred to as “the Management Business Law”) was enacted in 2001. JASRAC was registered as a management business operator under the Management Business Law, and continued its collective management business. Since other management business operators for music copyrights were also registered, a multiple-СMO environment emerged in the field of music copyright administration in Japan.

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Draft proposal for a directive on copyright in the Digital Single Market – new exception and research organisations

New technologies enable the automated computational analysis of information in digital form, such as text, sounds, images or data, generally known as text and data mining, faster than in done by individuals. Those technologies allow researchers to process large amount of information to gain new knowledge and discover new trends. Whilst text and data mining technologies are prevalent across the digital economy, there is widespread acknowledgement that text and data mining can in particular benefit the research community and in so doing encourage innovation.

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Russian ministry of education proposed unique way to fight plagiarism in scientific research

Despite there is no such legal definition as plagiarism in current Russian law, but in order to deprive someone’s scientific decree the fact of copyright infringement should be determined and proved in court under proposed rules. Only if the court decides that someone, who received academic decree, has infringed copyright by way of publishing of his scientific research, the scientific decree can be deprived.

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Amendments to Michel Reimon’s draft opinion of EU action plan to enforce IP rights

According to the Commission, the cultural and creative sectors, often IPR intensive, already account for up to 4.5% of GDP and up to 8.5 million jobs in the European Union and are not only essential for cultural diversity but also significantly contribute to social and economic development. The key objective of the Action Plan should be to ensure the effective enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) which plays a key role in stimulating innovation, creativity, competitiveness, growth and cultural diversity.

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BMI’s victory over DOJ’s rule of 100% licencing

BMI promptly sought a declaratory judgment that the Consent Decree does not require 100% (“full-work”) licensing. Nothing in the Consent Decree gives support to the Division’s views. If a fractionally-licensed composition is disqualified from inclusion in BMI’s repertory, it is not for violation of any provision of the Consent Decree.

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