Not only Russian copyright, broadcast and digital law
Russian minister of culture Vladimir Medinsky has sent a letter to Russian prime-minister Dmitry Medvedev. In this letter Medinsky requested Medvedev to regain lost copyright in movies made by Lenfilm and Gorky Film studios to these studios. Such measure could help these studios to earn at least 200 million roubles in a year, Medinsky believes.
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Abbott and Costello were a popular mid‐Twentieth Century comedy duo. One of their routines, commonly referred to as “Who’s on First?”, has become a treasured piece of American entertainment history.
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Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer first performed together live as Spinal Tap in a television show in the 1970’s. They later, with Rob Reiner, developed the characters in the Spinal Tap band and made a short film with improvised scenes and seven songs. In the process of attempting to turn that short film into a feature-length movie, they formed a joint partnership, “Spinal Tap Productions” (“STP”). On the strength of this work, on May 7, 1982, Reiner, Shearer, Guest, and McKean, as co-owners of STP, signed an agreement with Embassy Pictures for production, financing, and distribution of the motion picture This Is Spinal Tap.
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This report builds on the 2012 version by providing an update on the impact of IP on US economy and a fresh look at the approach used to measure those results. The update continues to focus on measuring the intensity of IP use, and its persistent relationship to economic indicators such as employment, wages, and value added.
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LiveJournal operates a web-based social media platform that allows users to create personalized online “journals.” LiveJournal users can also create “communities” around specific topics or shared interests. Users can post content to their personal journals or to communities they join, and can comment on content posted by other users. Anyone can set up a LiveJournal account and participate in the service. Currently, LiveJournal hosts more than 14 million journals and more than 2.6 million communities.
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In the current economic context, the protection of consumers and businesses from abuses of competition law is a particularly important goal. Systems of protection are well established at national level and, for some time, have been coordinated at European level, in the context of the single market.
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Plaintiffs asserted that Defendants infringed Plaintiffs’ exclusive rights in their copyright to Plaintiffs’ Rise screenplay, in violation of Title 17 U.S.C. § 106, by preparing unauthorized derivative works, namely Defendants’ God’s Not Dead (“GND”) screenplay and motion picture. Plaintiffs alleged that as a result of Defendants’ copyright infringement, Plaintiffs were prevented from making the Rise film and each receiving their 50% interests.
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Cultural and creative industries (CCIs) operate in a constantly evolving environment dominated by the development and use of digital information and communications technology on a global scale. They are based on and promote individual creativity, cultural value, skills and talent with the potential to create wealth and jobs through generating value from intellectual property.
This technical consultation concerns only the elements of the Government response that recommend repealing Section 73 of the Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act 1988. Section 73 currently states that the copyright in a broadcast is not infringed where that broadcast is retransmitted via cable. More specifically, this technical consultation considers the practical impacts of the repeal of Section 73, and any necessary transitional arrangements.
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If officers in Russian authorities will buy imported (foreign) software on account of Russian state while there will be offers of Russian analogues, relevant Russian authority, buying such software, will be imposed with fine. For these purposes necessary amendments will be developed to Russian administrative code by Russian ministry of economic development and Russian ministry of communication.
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