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As reported in a previous issue (see IRIS 2011-2/36) the Federal Service to Control Observance of Law in the Sphere of Protection of Cultural Heritage (Rosokhrankultura) at the Ministry of Culture was assigned and conducted in 2008-2010 the accreditation procedure in all six fields of collective management, including public performance, broadcasting and cablecasting of musical works. The results of the accreditation process were recently successfully challenged in the courts by bidders that had failed to obtain state permits. On 25 January 2011 the Arbitration Court of the City of Moscow by resolution...

On 21 December 2010 the State Duma (parliament) adopted at the third and last reading the bill “О защите детей от информации, причиняющей вред их здоровью и развитию” (On the Protection of Minors against Information Detrimental to their Health and Development) (see IRIS 2009-8/29), which was signed into law by the President on 29 December 2010. It comes into force on 1 September 2012. The new federal statute shall regulate “products of the mass media, printed materials, audiovisual materials on any material object, computer programmes and databases, as well as information disseminated by means...

The Ministry of Culture has completed a process of awarding special permits envisioned by Article 1245 of the Fourth Part of the Civil Code introduced on 1 January 2008 (see IRIS Plus 2008-2). On 24 September 2010 it awarded the Russian Union of Rightsholders (RSP), headed by famous film director Nikita Mikhalkov, the status of an accredited organisation. This is in fact a governmental licence to collect fees on all imported electronic devices and blank recordable media on behalf of authors. The Russian Union of Rightsholders will collect 1 percent of the price of blank media and electronic devices...

The recent Resolution of the Plenary of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation “On Judicial Practice Related to the Statute of the Russian Federation ‘On the Mass Media’” of 15 June 2010, No. 16 (see IRIS 2010-6/40) refers to the issue of liability for statements of the readers/viewers made on the fora and chat pages of an Internet site registered as a mass media outlet. If this section of the web-site is not pre-moderated such an outlet can become liable only if it received a complaint from Roskomnadzor (Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media)...

The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Interparliamentary Assembly which currently is comprised of delegations from the parliaments of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russian Federation, Tajikistan and Ukraine enacted on 7 April 2010 Модельный Кодекс интеллектуальной собственности для государств - участников СНГ (Model Code on Intellectual Property for CIS Member-States). It consists of 13 chapters with total 107 articles. In a way the new Model Code develops the notions and ideas of Part 4 of the Russian Federation’s Civil Code of 18 December 2006 (see IRIS-Plus...