One of the Moscow prosecutor offices has officially mentioned violation of law committed by Russian cartoon studio Souzmultfilm. Studio has concluded two deals with Danone totally on half billion Russian Roubles without prior approval of government.
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One Russian famous writer, the author of Prostokvashino, Eduard Uspensky has published an open letter to Russian president. The letter is some kind of “the cry of writer’s soul” because his copyright is not respected from his point of view. Actually the letter titles “I don’t have the right to receive remuneration for t-shirt with Cheburashka (books character)”. The reason of this letter is production of new series of Prostokvashino by Russian Souzmultfilm, but without participation of Uspensky.
Comments closedRussian Federal Antitrust Service believes they can. Elena Zaeva, the main person in service’s department of communication and informational technologies, stated that the service has revealed the opportunity of search engines, namely Yandex and Google, to affect search results “manually”. But the service did not reveal violation of current Russian law, but it monitors the situation.
Comments closedTill the end of 2019 there should be regulated identification of internet of things (IoT) in Russia. Such measure is provided in Russian strategy for “Digital economy”. It was stated that it is not about to identify users, who have devices of IoT, but things themselves. For each device, thing connected to internet, an individual identifier should be allocated.
Comments closedRussian watchdog, protecting consumers’ rights and interests, proposed to make a list of online stores, which can operate in Russia. Such list would be some kind of registry, containing the web-sites having the rights to operate in Russia. New proposal concerns not only Russian online stores, but also foreign.
Comments closedRussian ministry of communication (MinCom) and Roskomandzor have developed and proposed new amendments to Russian law allowing this authority to check relative relationships of persons, who owns or controls mass media in Russia. Proposed amendments provide the Roskomnadzor with access to federal data base of registered acts of civil status.
Comments closedRussia’s customs authorities continue to assess duties on the royalty value of some imported audiovisual materials, rather than solely on the physical value of carrier medium. This is contrary to standard international practice. Such assessments are a form of double taxation, since royalties are also subject to withholding, income, value-added and remittance taxes.
Comments closedProposed draft law contains amendments to Russian law on “Information, its protection and informational technologies”. The proposed law aims to protect the rights in national films and legal interests of rights holders in internet.
Comments closedThere are a lot of popular Russian cartoons in Russia. Such cartoons have been produced in soviet times. Therefore almost nobody has cared about copyright. With appearance of private capital the copyright became a very important thing. Therefore the matter of copyright ownership suddenly arisen for some companies. Their business bases on copyright. Without rights in content the existence of such companies does not make a sense.
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