Not only Russian copyright, broadcast and digital law
The Copyright Office should remain part of the Legislative Branch where it can provide independent and timely advice to Congress on copyright law and policy. Furthermore, the Copyright Office should have autonomy over its budget and technology needs.
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SOCAN is Canada’s music performing rights society. Pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Canadian Copyright Act (the “Acf’), SOCAN carries on the business, on a not-for-profit basis, of granting licences for the public performance and communication to the public by telecommunication of musical works in Canada.
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The new draft law, providing regulation for OTT-services operating in Russia, caused many concerns of companies or persons who might be potentially affected by this regulation. Its requirements and mandatory provisions can destroy current business structure formed for the past few years, and not so many companies and their executives and owners are sure whether law-makers understand how their business works and whether they will pay attention to industry’s proposals.
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A legal, financial, organizational and technical environment that is conducive to the preservation of works and other subject-matter in the digital environment, as well as their digitisation and dissemination by cultural heritage institutions, is depend on a variety of factors.
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On 6 May 2015, the European Commission decided on the basis of European Union competition rules to launch a sector inquiry into the electronic commerce of consumer goods and digital content in the EU (“sector inquiry”) as part of its Digital Single Market strategy (1,2,3) adopted on the same day.
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The new law has been introduced into Russian state duma. It was already specified the main provisions of this law. From this draft law provisions, regulating operation of app like Viber and WhatsApp, have been excluded.
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Enforcement of intellectual property rights (IPRs) is not merely a driver for jobs and growth across the Union but is essential for the proper functioning of the single market, especially in view of factors such as share of EU GDP, employment, and the range of industries which benefit from and exploit IPRs, and plays a key role in stimulating innovation, creativity, competitiveness and cultural diversity.
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In view of a potentially high number of access requests to and downloads of their works or other subject-matter, rightsholders should be allowed to apply measures where there is risk that the security and integrity of the system or databases where the works or other subject-matter are hosted would be jeopardised.
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Major Russian internet companies Mail.ru and Yandex dislike the draft bill, proposed by Russian media-communication union. This draft bill provides regulation for OTT-services and messengers. Interpretation of draft bill can be too broad and affect not only Viber and WhatsApp, but other services, including those, who work in internal Russian marketplace and from Russia.
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Opinion provides justification for and amendments to proposal. Amendments intend to change some provisions of directive with purpose to make protection of rights and private data of consumers stronger.
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