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Russian association of movie and television producers (APKiT) proposed new measure to fight piracy. But this measure would affect many market players in Russia, even those who has nothing in common with piracy and even with such content like movies, music or images.
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Already published new US list of countries where piracy is still “alive”. What is interesting is this list? This is the first Notorious Markets review in which copyright stakeholders have nominated stream ripping sites for inclusion in the List.
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Russian association of movie and television producers (APKiT) has developed antipiracy draft bill obliging search engines to delete links to pirate sites from indexing. This draft has been sent to Russian ministry of culture.
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The U.S. Copyright Office is proposing to amend the regulation governing supplementary registration to reflect certain technical upgrades that will soon be made to the electronic registration system. In most cases applicants will be required to submit an online application in order to correct or amplify the information set forth in a basic registration.
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Russian president has signed new decree “About additional measures on counteractions against illegal turnover of industrial products”. This decree sets up new state commission which will coordinate functioning of federal and regional executive authorities on counteractions against illegal import, manufacturing and turnover of industrial products, including counterfeits, and also on monitoring and assessment of situation in this field.
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Counterfeits are an evil, as believes Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. He has signed new strategy to fight with this evil, which decreases tax and revenue and causes danger and insecurity for health and life of Russians. “Counterfeits interfere with creation civilised marketplace. It is impossible to measure precisely the scale of this disaster because illegal turnover is in gray economy. But according to different assessments in some fields of industries the scale of counterfeits can be up to 50%” – said Medvedev at governmental meeting.
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At oral evidence Josh Franceschi said that fans are heading to primary ticket websites only to see that the shows or concerts are labelled as sold out, when often they are not, and they have to pay hiked-up prices on the secondary websites. He underlined the need of transparency as to who the primary seller is, because most of the secondary ticket websites in search are listed higher than the primary ticket websites.
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Right holders in Russia don’t like the fact that their content, including music or movies, can be used in social networks without any payment and permission. Social networks prescribe in their terms and conditions an obligation of user to upload only legal content or clear copyright prior to use any copyrighted material in network. But mostly users of social networks don’t read, at least carefully, or don’t understand all terms and conditions.
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In order to block website infringing someone’s copyright it is necessary to file suit and require preliminary measures. i.e. blocking access to illegal content. It can be page or entire site if it is not possible to block single page apart from entire site. Filing a suit takes a time. But if web-site infringes other law you can notify relevant authorities thereof.
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Many Russian media resources have reported one interesting thing. The chief of organisation, protecting copyright and fighting piracy in Russia, like with the case of Librusec, Maksim Ryabiko as reported has been detained on suspicion of racketeering.
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