Because of the rapid change in technology, the societies have begun to experience complications in regards to its negotiations with “new media” music services, i.e., music performed over the internet and through wireless networks.
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Last year Russian government adopted new amendments to rules for demonstration of movies in cinemas. Under these amendments the permission for demonstration of movies is also necessary for “showing of film by other technical means”. The making available of a film is also included to public performance. Russian MinCult decided to clarify these amendments and published its explanation.
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Russian Roskomnadzor can receive a power to define the way of blocking for web-sites listed in “black list”. New developed amendments for regulation are intended to protect law-abiding web resources from unjustifiable blocking, for example when two web-sites “reside” on single IP and one of them must be blocked under Russian law, the “innocent” will not be punished together with guilty one.
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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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For reasons of international comity, the licencing mechanisms for the digitisation and dissemination of out-of-commerce works provided for in this Directive should not apply to works or other subject-matter that are first published or, in the absence of publication, first broadcast in a third country or, in the case of cinematographic or audiovisual works, to works the producer of which has his headquarters or habitual residence in a third country.
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“FAPL” is the governing body of the football competition known as the Premier League. FAPL owns the copyright in films comprising television footage of all Premier League matches, and in artistic works which appear within that footage. By its claim FAPL sought an injunction against the six main retail internet service providers (“ISPs”) in the United Kingdom pursuant to section 97A of the CDPA 1988, which implements Article 8(3) of the Information Society Directive, requiring the defendants in this case to take measures to block, or at least impede, access by their customers to streaming servers which deliver infringing live streams of Premier League footage to UK consumers.
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Russian federal authorities proposed to mitigate new regulation for OTT-services operating in Russia
Two Russian federal authorities proposed to amend draft law on OTT-services operating in Russia. Russian ministry of communication (MinCom) and Federal anti-monopoly service (FAS). MinCom proposed to exclude social networks and services like YouTube from scope of regulation. FAS proposed to exclude services from scope of regulation under the principle of residency.
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As the judge has mentioned, this is very unusual case. The plaintiff has sued Amazon, claiming that it permitted third parties to advertise on its website six counterfeit copies of books called Vagabond Natural and Vagabond Spiritual that the plaintiff had written and self‐published (that is, published himself rather than handed to a publisher).
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Many service providers readily claim in their comments that the DMCA safe harbors, as interpreted by the courts and certain advocates, give service providers blanket immunity from damages liability for copyright infringement as long as they respond to takedown notices and terminate users they deem to be repeat infringers.
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Under the consent decrees, for an end-user to obtain a blanket license it need only write a letter to ASCAP or BMI asking to do so. While the ensuing blanket license process is a highly efficient means of clearing music rights for use in the media, rates are sometimes disputed in the rate court where prior licenses are cited to help the rate court determine a reasonable fee for the music user.
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