Not only Russian copyright, broadcast and digital law
ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents stationed in the United States, Canada, France and Netherlands were recognized by L. Carlos Linares, vice president of Anti-Piracy Legal Affairs at RIAA, for their role in aggressively pursuing a North Carolina man who had personally pirated upwards of $7 million worth of songs, albums and other copyright protected content on the websites RockDizMusic.com and RockDizFile.com before they were seized by HSI authorities in 2014.
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IPO will comprehensively review all existing methods of legal recourse for IP infringement to ensure they are effective, consistent and proportionate across all IP rights. IPO also wants to ensure that UK business and rights holders continue to have the necessary legal means to protect their IP.
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Tackling the trade in counterfeit goods requires the cooperation and coordination of a wide range of enforcement partners. For example, there are opportunities to work with the Local Government Association, local authorities and Police and Crime Commissioners to ensure that the harm caused at a local level is understood and enforcement is prioritised accordingly. IPO has a key role to play in acting as the focal point in the UK for collecting data on trends and emerging issues, and working with its partners to find appropriate ways to address these issues. IPO will build on its current work in this area, to provide a coordinating and supporting role to those bodies on the front line. IPO will do this by:
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Making it easier for consumers to recognise and avoid copyright-infringing websites by:
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Russian governmental experts found draft amendments to law “About information, its protection and informational technologies”, considering mirrors of already blocked pirate web-site in Russia as pirate resources, not suitable for implementation of such idea in practice.
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As long as domain Rutracker.org is permanently blocked, it means forever, Rutracker team decided to change few letters in its domain address. It was Rutracker.org, now it is Rutracker.net. It still works. Domain. As declared Rutracker’s “administration”, the new launched website is official “mirror” of Rutracker.org. The “new” website will work as usual and on continuing basis.
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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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Direct deals by consolidated music publishers are de facto anticompetitive, lacking in transparency and potentially harmful for songwriters. At the recent round of music licensing hearings before Congress, BMI addressed the issue of “interim licensing.” Both ASCAP and BMI have the ability to negotiate interim fees. While FMC acknowledges that the addition of interim licensing may be an equitable solution, any modification regarding interim licensing or fees must preserve direct payments to songwriters, the 50/50 splits, and promote greater transparency for the benefit of songwriters who require accurate royalty statements and services seeking clarity on what repertoire is available to perform. FMC, however, also acknowledges that interim licensing could shift the “holdout” problem, demotivating PROs to come to reasonable fee agreements. Combined with the proposals for mandatory arbitration, interim licensing could potentially leave songwriters and end-users in a dead-zone without any recourse, stuck with payments under new interim licenses and lacking any bargaining power to arrive at reasonable licensing through an equitable or meaningful grievance mechanism.
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Option 4 would be achieved through a Regulation setting out common EU rules and replacing national legislation with a legal base of Article 118 TFEU. A single EU copyright title would be developed to replace national copyright titles. Under a unitary title, the exclusive rights would be defined as being protected in the whole territory of the EU.
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Territoriality and absolute territorial restrictions in licensing agreements
Under the “country of origin” principle, a service provider can use the licence in its country of origin (possibly obtained from a person holding the rights in that country only) in order to actively market content outside its country of origin as well. When rights are territorially fragmented, e.g. when different persons or entities hold the rights for different Member States, a service provider established in one Member States may therefore undermine the economic position of right holders in other Member States.
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