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Collaboration between information society service providers and rightholders is essential for the functioning of the measures, such as content recognition technologies. These measures should be applied with regard to works and other subject-matter identified by rightholders at the request of such rightholders and in cooperation with them.
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Russian authorities want their piece of pie from borderless trade. Russian customers have positive experience in buying goods or services from abroad from foreign companies through their web-site or services available also in Russia. Russian customers pay real money and overseas companies make profits from such purchases, but Russian government does not receive taxes from such purchases, but it really wants to do.
Comments closedIn one of Roskomnadzor’s organisations, in Federal State Unitary Organisation (FGUP) “The main radio-frequency center”, has been created a special department. This department should discover, explore and analyse a different opportunities of restriction of access to different internet services. It would make practical experiments and research in the field of blocking of access to internet resources for ISP customers.
Comments closedThe annual publication of the result of customs actions at the EU external borders provides an opportunity to measure the scale of customs actions to enforce IPR. Newly published report on EU customs enforcement on IPR contains statistical information about the detentions made under customs procedures and includes data on the description, quantities and value of the goods, their provenance, the means of transport and the type of intellectual property right that may have been infringed.
Comments closedIt were assessed the baseline scenario, one non-legislative and two legislative options to facilitate licensing in order to enhance cross-border transmissions of TV and radio programmes online. The considered options are enabling options aiming to facilitate licensing of rights, in order to allow the market to respond gradually to legal and policy changes.
Comments closedThe only parties who are eligible to be the copyright claimant are (i) the author of the work, or (ii) a copyright owner who owns all of the exclusive rights in the work. A person or entity who owns one or more—but less than all—of the exclusive rights in a work is not eligible to be a claimant.
Comments closedThree top executives of Russian Roskomnadzor are under investigation. Russian investigative committee has initiated a criminal case and leads investigation in relation to executives of Roskomnadzor. There are three persons involved in this case – Vadim Ampelonsky (press secretary of Roskomnadzor), Boris Edidin (chief of legal department at Roskomnadzor) and Aleksandr Veselchakov.
Comments closedOne of the biggest and popular torrent trackers, rutracker, started to instruct its users how to access it, even if Russian internet service providers (ISP) have restricted access to rutracker and its mirrors under court order in Russia.
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The CMO, SIA AKKA/LAA, complained to the European Court of Human Rights that the domestic courts had restricted the copyright of authors whose musical works were collectively managed by the CMO. They complained, in particular, that as a result of the domestic proceedings in which the domestic courts had ordered the CMO to conclude licence agreements with broadcasting organisations and had set a royalty rate, the authors’ exclusive rights to freely conclude licence agreements for the use of their musical works had been restricted, contrary to Article 1 of protocol No. 1of the Convention of Human Rights.
Comments closedOver the last years, the functioning of the online content marketplace has gained in complexity. Online services storing and providing access to copyright protected content uploaded by their users have flourished and have become main sources of access to content online.
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