The core idea of new draft law, which is not presented to the public, is condition for distribution of movies in cinemas in Russia – not more than 35% of all film sessions during single day for one film in one cinema. Russian ministry of culture (MinCult) has only launched to develop draft law.
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Last year right holders have achieved permanent blocking of Rutracker.org site for copyright infringement. But the result – permanent blocking – was not enough for them. Clones of Rutracker appeared in spite of right holders. In order to shut down Rutracker’s “family” it was necessary to start all over again.
Comments closedThe Russian council of the federation considers options for blocking of broadcasting in Russia by foreign mass media, if such media have audience in Russia. How should be defined “audience” and how to count such audience is not clear and it is not clear whether it is possible to make correctly at all.
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The new law, proposed recently, provides pretty harsh regulation for VPN and anonymizer services operating in Russia. Not all are happy with intention of Russian government to control anonymizers and messengers in Russia. Internet ombudsman believes it is madness to block VPN services in a case if they don’t comply with requirements of Russian supervising authorities.
Comments closedRussian ombudsman on internet dislikes idea to forbid VPN and similar services in Russia in order to control access to information or dissemination of information. He believes such idea is madness.
Comments closedNew draft law, repealing the law on bloggers in Russia, has been introduced to Russian State Duma. Provisions of the law on bloggers, regulating dissemination of publicly accessible information in Internet by bloggers, have been declared as ineffective. Many believes that registry of bloggers, created under this law, is a stupid and absurd thing.
Comments closedNew draft law proposes amendments to Russian law on information, its protection and informational technologies. Explanatory note to this draft underlines that relevant Russian authorities face obstacles when forbid dissemination of illegal information under current Russian law. First of all it is impossible to oblige search engines to exclude links to forbidden information in search results. Secondly VPN services nullify all endeavours targeted to control over dissemination of information in violation of Russian law.
Comments closedDue to the lack of a European right (except for trademarks and designs), obtaining interlocutory or permanent injunctions for the same infringement against infringers or intermediaries from several jurisdictions in the EU is often cumbersome for certain IPR, in particular copyright.
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Russian Roskomnadzor proposed instructions for OTT-(audio-visual)-services explaining how to count viewers visiting web-sites of such services. This instruction has been proposed in order to implement new law on OTT-(audio-visual)-services operating in Russia. This law provides regulation for popular services with audience more than 100 thousands viewers a day.
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Different stakeholders ask for a clarification of the scope of provisional and permanent injunctions, in particular with regard to intermediaries. A broad call is also made to generally strengthen the involvement of intermediaries in IPR enforcement.
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