Russian legislators during consideration of the draft law, regulating the work of messengers in Russia, in second reading have proposed to block certain users in messengers under court order.
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The law provides definition of organiser of audio-visual service. It is an owner of web-site and/or its single page in Internet network and/or software for computers, which are exploited (web-site, page or software) to form and/or to organise dissemination in Internet a set of audio-visual works, if access to such audio-visual works is provided for payment and/or under condition to view an ads, intended to attract attention of consumers, residing in Russia, and the quantity of visitors is not less than 100 thousands a day from territory of Russia.
Comments closedPlatforms are generally known as “two-sided” or “multi-sided” markets where users are brought together by a platform operator in order to facilitate an interaction (exchange of information, a commercial transaction, etc.). In the context of digital markets, depending on a platform’s business model, users can be buyers of products or services, sellers, advertisers, software developers, etc.
Comments closedNew draft law, currently considered, provides regulation for messengers like Viber or WhatsApp. In initial draft it was provided that messengers have to identify its users. Identification can be made with help of subscriber’s phone number and under agreement concluded between messenger and mobile operator. Such provision was very advantageous for mobile operators – without them messengers would not have opportunity to work in Russia.
Comments closedIn order to trigger the mechanism of blocking, the Russian Roskomnadzor has to receive a court order. After that, Roskomnadzor requires internet service providers (ISP) to restrict access to web-site in Internet permanently, if there was illegally placed information containing objects of copyright or information necessary to receive such objects with help of info-telecommunication networks, including Internet.
Comments closedNew draft law proposes to oblige social networks to bear responsibility in Russia for user’s content
Explanatory note to this draft law reveals its main goal – to prevent dissemination of illegal information in social networks. Note also underlines, that European countries also pay attention to regulation for social networks. Therefore, Russian legislators decided to be in trend, like foreign legislators.
Comments closedFirst assessment states that the law intended to prevent illegal dissemination and exploitation of intellectual property objects in Internet network. The committee on culture of Russian state duma, the “author” of this assessment, upheld conception of the draft law, but has its own comments.
Comments closedThis “collective order” has been issued by Russian ministry of internal affairs, Russian Federal Taxation Service, Russian Roskomnadzor and Russian Federal service on protection of customers’ rights. This order is very interesting. It provides criteria under which it is possible to determine whether information is to be forbidden for dissemination in Russian segment of Internet.
Comments closedLast 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 closedMatch TV publicly declared how it is important to protect not only the copyright itself, but also the value of copyrights in content. Especially if capital of company consists of content. It was little public dispute between Match TV and sports.ru about the copyright. Match TV accused sports.ru of copyright neglect. Sports.ru explained everything in details.
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