{"id":702,"date":"2016-08-15T22:22:58","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T22:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dekuzu.com\/en\/?p=702"},"modified":"2016-08-15T22:22:58","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T22:22:58","slug":"authors-and-right-holders-ask-to-stop-anarchy-in-russian-authors-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dekuzu.com\/en\/2016\/08\/authors-and-right-holders-ask-to-stop-anarchy-in-russian-authors-society.html","title":{"rendered":"Authors and right holders ask \u201cto stop anarchy in Russian Authors Society\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The group of right holders has written a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/\u0442\u0440\u0435\u0431\u0443\u0435\u043c-\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0430\u043d\u043e\u0432\u0438\u0442\u044c-\u0431\u0435\u0441\u043f\u0440\u0435\u0434\u0435\u043b-\u0432-\u0440\u0430\u043e?tk=XEpgm0atX2hvji99FffgLRPEuqMx7byX19zCPKnENMs&amp;utm_source=supporter_signature_milestone_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=supporter_signatures_25000&amp;utm_term=supporter_signature_milestone_email\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">petition<\/a> to stop anarchy in Russian Authors Society (RAO). This petition is to be signed electronically by 50000 persons; almost 47 thousands already did it. This petition will be delivered to Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev, to his first deputy Igor Shuvalov, to director of Federal Security Service (FSB), to minister of internal affairs, to chairman of investigation committee, to attorney general, to minister of culture, and to members of RAO.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What do right holders want? First of all, petition states that in the field of royalties collection and distribution \u201cunacceptable criminal situation\u201d has evolved and is developing and \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dekuzu.com\/en\/2016\/07\/something-has-changed-for-management-of-russian-authors-society.html\">RAO case<\/a>\u201d confirms it. Fedotov is under arrest; but it does not change anything for ordinary members of RAO. There are no positive changes for them. They still don\u2019t have opportunity to manage or participate in operational RAO\u2019s activity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">RAO is still managed by Fedotov\u2019s mother and author\u2019s council, \u201clured\u201d by mother and her son as \u201cclaimants\u201d believe. RAO\u2019s management doesn\u2019t do anything in order to bring an order. There will be no independent audit, special software for proper accounting will be not implemented (but RAO stated not once that it already was implemented and works very good) what precludes transparency in collection and distribution of royalties collected by RAO.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cClaimants\u201d ask to protect RAO from fraudsters (perhaps it is about RAO\u2019s management) who mislead state authorities and individual authors. RAO is monopolist in the field of collective public performance right management under state accreditation (permission if you want). \u201cClaimants\u201d also ask to examine the following information:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>What reasons and legitimacy served to Fedotov in creation of separate system of royalties collection through the vague organisations and private persons in the place of RAO\u2019s representative offices. The split of collected royalties between Fedotov and them was 50\/50, where 50% of collected royalties remained in regions (what is illegal and prohibited by statute) and 50% main RAO\u2019s office took itself (very often without specification of works, the rights exercised therein, and authors, who is entitled to receive collected royalties) in order to deduct administrative expenditure (administrative costs etc.) and remaining sums it distributed among authors.<\/li>\n<li>The rest requirement relate to Fedotov\u2019s assets. How he has earned money to buy and exploit them. Nothing interesting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Petition also require to examine financial activity of RAO since 2000 (when Vera Fedotova, mother of Sergey Fedotov, started to work as chief accountant) \u2013 procedures of royalties collection, its distribution and legitimacy of RAO\u2019s expenditures. Petition also asks to check out \u201cunclaimed\u201d royalties. Why such royalties have been deposited in different commercial banks and where are they now? \u201cClaimants\u201d ask to fire Fedotov, his mother (it seems only Krichevsky deserves their credibility), to dissolve authors council and some other things including repeal of RAO state accreditation and grant it to organisation deserving credibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The group of right holders has written a petition to stop anarchy in Russian Authors Society (RAO). This petition is to be signed electronically by 50000 persons; almost 47 thousands already did it. This petition will be delivered to Russian<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dekuzu.com\/en\/2016\/08\/authors-and-right-holders-ask-to-stop-anarchy-in-russian-authors-society.html\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Authors and right holders ask \u201cto stop anarchy in Russian Authors Society\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3,5,7,6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cmo-rules","category-collective-management","category-copyright","category-enforcement","category-intellectual-property","category-internet","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dekuzu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dekuzu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dekuzu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dekuzu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dekuzu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dekuzu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dekuzu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dekuzu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dekuzu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}