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Draft Second Act amending the Telemedia Act

The ever-widening spread of digitalisation is accompanied by increased need for public access to the internet using wireless local area networks (WLAN). The availability of the internet via WLAN has now generally become a prerequisite in hotels and increasingly also in inner cities, cafés, airports and waiting areas. This is far less widespread in Germany than in many other countries. One reason for this is that potential operators providing WLAN internet access have been made uncertain because of the liability risks arising as a result of the unclarified legal position.

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A communication operator can be liable for hint how to circumvent blocking of web-site with illegal information

Russian ministry of communication (MinCom) has improved draft law about liability for circumvention of blocking web-sites. Now it is intended to penalize communication operators if they explain how to circumvent blocking of web-site and receive access to it on a “cork-page” of blocked and included in Roskomndzor’s “black list” web-site.

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The new draft about mirrors of illegal web-site is not good enough to be a law in Russia

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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Author of posted comment should be personally responsible for it in Russia

If you have a web-site and post interesting things, information or other content and allow your readers to comment it then you should not be liable if the users will infringe applicable law in Russia by way of posting comment on your web-site. It is proposed to make the readers of internet mass media liable for their comments.

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Russian Rutracker is back again?!

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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A Digital Single Market Strategy for Europe

What should DSM (official) mean for citizens and business?

Making the Single Market fit for a digital age requires rapid actions to remove the major differences between the online and offline worlds i.e. breaking down barriers to cross-border online activity. This is the first pillar of actions for the Strategy. Secondly, since all digital services, applications and content depend on the availability throughout Europe of high-speed, secure and trustworthy infrastructures, we need action to create the right regulatory conditions for investment, stimulate competition and ensure a level playing field between market players. Thirdly, breaking down barriers to the Digital Single Market is not enough if businesses in Europe are not in a position to be able to adopt digital technologies. The Strategy supports increased digitalisation of the EU economy, including investment in ICT infrastructures. The Digital Single Market Strategy will therefore be built on the three pillars:

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Reforming of copyright in EU and one of the questions concerned: user-generated content

User Generated Content (UGC) is understood as referring to cases where a pre-existing work is taken by a user as a starting point for his/her own expression, modified or transformed in one way or another, and then made available online. It may also include the merging of two pre-existing works (“mash-ups”). The threshold may be lower than “a certain amount of creative effort”. It excludes the case of “mere upload”, where a user merely distributes on the internet (by uploading and sharing it) pre-existing works without having intervened in any way on the work. It also excludes “creation from scratch”, i.e. the case where a user creates a new work “from scratch”, without relying on a pre-existing work.

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White paper – Making available issue

There is no unitary copyright title in Europe, so works are protected on the basis on 28 national legislations. The use of a work in all EU Member States therefore requires the clearing of rights for 28 territories. The varying availability and accessibility of content services in the EU can thus be caused by the difficulties that service providers have in obtaining all the rights needed in all territories.

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