It appears from the case-file that Mr Tolsma plays a barrel organ on the public highway in the Netherlands. During his musical performance he offers passers-by a collecting tin for their donations; he also sometimes knocks on the door of houses and shops to ask for donations, but without being able to claim any remuneration by right.
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A derivative literary work is a work that is based upon one or more preexisting works, regardless of whether the preexisting work is a literary work, a work of the performing arts, a sound recording, a pictorial, graphic, or sculptural work, or any other type of work.
Comments closedIt seems Russian ministry of culture (MinCult) knows how to kill two birds with one stone – to bite a Hollywood and to help Russian cinematography. Many stakeholders disliked the idea with 5 mln roubles for permission to show movie in Russian cinema. Therefore MinCult proposed something new – 3% of revenue from ticket sales. This 3% could make “additional 1,5 billion roubles” for funding of Russian movies.
Comments closedThe more people will come to see the Russian movie outside of Russia, means the Russian movie fund works more effective. Now it is not enough to increase the quantity of Russian movies, it is also important to make excellent movies in order to make people pay for the ticket in cinema.
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Russian ministry of culture (MinCult), including its chief Vladimir Medinsky, made a lot to protect Russian cinematograph in Russia and now such measures entail consequences. One Russian distribution company has obtained permission to distribute cartoon movie Paddington 2 in Russia.
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What does it mean to be open online?
“Sometimes, sure, creators give their work out for free and get their reward in other ways. Other times, the best way for creators to profit is to charge for access to their work. That’s not a limitation on freedom or openness, any more than paying for a newspaper is.
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Russian Association of Internet Trade (AKIT) and “Public customer initiative” (OPI) have made research on internet trade. According to this research more than 25% of popular internet stores don’t comply with current Russian law. Approximately 1000 online store have been analyzed during the research.
Comments closedOne 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.
Comments closedMichel Barnier, European Commissioner for the Internal Market and Services, presided over the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding(MoU) in which libraries, publishers, authors, and their collecting societies have agreed to a set of Key Principles that are intended to give European libraries and similar cultural institutions the possibility to digitise and make available on line out-of-commerce books and learned journals which are part of their collections. This non-legislative initiative is complementary to the Commission’s adopted legislative proposal on orphan works.
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CJSC “Roust Inc.” is the proprietor of a number of trade mark registrations for marks comprising or including the word mark RUSSIAN STANDARD. The registrations cover a wide variety of goods and services including vodka. Russian Standard, Inc. uses some domain names, such as russian-standard.com, russian-standard.net, russianstandart.com and russianstandart.net, to offer its services.
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