In the short term, the situation would not substantially change for CHIs. They would enjoy a narrow or larger space for preservation depending on the MS in which they carry out their preservation activities. Except in cases where MS may update their implementation of the current EU exception for ‘specific acts of reproduction’ to exploit its full space for preservation purposes, legal uncertainty and barriers to preservation will persist to varying degrees in the long term too.
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The Russian Ministry of communication and internet watchdog (Roskomnadzor, RKN) have upheld the draft law on autonomy of Russian internet. The draft law would authorize RKN to control the traffic route in Russia. The RKN would have the authority to define the rules for traffic route and communication operator, at their own risk and responsibility, would oblige to comply with such rules. More over RKN should ensure that minimum of Russian internal internet traffic passes through overseas traffic exchange points.
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The Chairman of Russian Accounts Chamber – Alexey Kudrin – has explained how new proposed draft law on regulation of internet impacts funding in digital and internet market. He believes the consideration of new draft law on Russian internet autonomy…
Comments closedThe Russian state duma has adopted the draft law aiming to regulate tickets sales in first reading. The main purpose of law is to exclude intermediaries from ticket sales chain. Thanks to such intermediaries the ticket prices sometimes increase more than three times from initial, selling price. The Russian legislators intend to make such practice over. Actually the law does not contain mandatory procedure of sales, rather its provisions “describes” how tickets should be sold.
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The stakeholders – mostly the companies who would be main subjects of proposed law – negatively assessed the law on autonomy of Russian internet. According to the assessment the provisions of law don’t coincide with declared aim to ensure the stability of Russian internet and Russian internet resources. The stakeholders believe the provisions of law would cause overloading of operators’ communication networks, network failures and significant increase in costs, including budgetary costs.
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The Russian ministry of communication, Federal security service and ministry of trade have jointly proposed to oblige Russian communication companies to use only Russian equipment for execution of Yarovaya law. In other words, only equipment, produced in Russia, can be exploited in order to keep all users’ communications within certain period of time for enforcement purposes.
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But it still can be adopted. The law aims to forbid persons to insult Russian authorities in internet; otherwise the person can face fine up to 5 thousands Roubles or even can be arrested for 15 days. The Russian ministry of communication does not support the draft law. The deputy of the minister has said “the one of the duties of Russian authorities is listening the criticism of their work calmly. They are not so impressionable.”
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No policy intervention. Reproduction of works for preservation purposes by CHIs would continue to take place only as permitted under the different conditions and the varying space provided by the national implementation of the existing EU exception for ‘specific acts of reproduction’, or after the reproduction right has been cleared with rightholders if CHIs consider that the transaction costs involved is for them worth and possible to incur. In voluntary legal deposit contexts and for parts of scientific publications that libraries have access to remotely, preservation could continue to take place within broader agreement-based systems.
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A substantial part of the law on copyright in the UK is derived from EU law. There are 11 EU Directives all of which have been implemented by the UK. The purpose of the Directives is to harmonise the copyright frameworks in Member States, by reducing national discrepancies and maintaining a level of protection which encourages creativity and enables consumers from across the EU to access services.
Comments closedThe experts in Russian government have assessed the recently proposed draft law on autonomy of Russian internet. And assessment underlines flaws of draft law, rather than its positive advantage. The draft law can impair the functioning of Russian internet, can make the authority of Russian internet watchdog – Roskomandzor – excessively broader and can entail high transaction costs for communication operators. The draft law also would not secure the stable functioning of Russian internet as it was initially declared by its authors.
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