This report (de) summarises the outcome of the public consultation on the role of publishers in the copyright value chain which was conducted by the Commission together with a consultation on the ‘panorama exception’.
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This report (de) summarises the outcome of the public consultation on the use of images of works, such as works of architecture or sculpture, made to be located permanently in public places (the ‘panorama exception’) which was conducted by the Commission together with a consultation on the role of publishers in the copyright value chain.
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The European Commission is inviting comments on commitments offered by Amazon to address competition concerns relating to parity clauses in contracts with publishers. The clauses may breach EU antitrust rules and result in reduced competition among e-book distributors, and less consumer choice.
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Many developed countries work hard in order to provide informational security in national interests. They adopt new laws, adapt to new digital realities, but internet, at least most part of it, is not banned. But sometimes it is easy to simulate hard work, instead of to do it. The only way to provide informational security in Russia is to enforce restrictions on internet like in China, believes German Klimenko, Russian president’s councilor on internet.
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Russian minister of culture, Vladimir Medinsky, believes it should be done much more in order to support Russian cinematography. How this goal could be achieved? Restrict opportunities for Hollywood. Why Hollywood? Perhaps because there have been produced more successful and popular movies?
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The new draft law, providing regulation for OTT-services operating in Russia, caused many concerns of companies or persons who might be potentially affected by this regulation. Its requirements and mandatory provisions can destroy current business structure formed for the past few years, and not so many companies and their executives and owners are sure whether law-makers understand how their business works and whether they will pay attention to industry’s proposals.
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Intellectual property rights are one of the driving forces of innovation and creativity and a key contributor to competitiveness, employment and cultural diversity. Product authenticity should not always be conflated with product safety and product quality issues, and the enforcement of intellectual property rights plays a significant role in ensuring consumers’ health and safety.
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On 6 May 2015, the European Commission decided on the basis of European Union competition rules to launch a sector inquiry into the electronic commerce of consumer goods and digital content in the EU (“sector inquiry”) as part of its Digital Single Market strategy (1,2,3) adopted on the same day.
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The new law has been introduced into Russian state duma. It was already specified the main provisions of this law. From this draft law provisions, regulating operation of app like Viber and WhatsApp, have been excluded.
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In view of a potentially high number of access requests to and downloads of their works or other subject-matter, rightsholders should be allowed to apply measures where there is risk that the security and integrity of the system or databases where the works or other subject-matter are hosted would be jeopardised.
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