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On 20 February 1997, the State Duma passed in the first reading (for a Bill to become law, there should be three readings in the Duma, approval by the Upper House, and signing by the President) a Bill on Limitations of Circulation of Products, Services and Performances of Sexual Character in the Russian Federation. The Bill, drafted by the Committee on Culture of the Duma permits, in accordance with Article 242 of the 1997 Criminal Code, the sale and distribution of legal pornography (as opposed to pornographic material which is considered to be illegal ). At the same time, for the first time...

In IRIS 1996-5: 7-10 we published an overview of the state of Signatures and Ratifications of European Conventions and other international treaties that are relevant to the audiovisual sector. The listing of when States became Party to the Convention relating to the distribution of programme-carrying signals transmitted by satellite (printed on page 8) is, however, not correct. Accidentily it reproduces the dates on which States became Party to the Berne Convention for the protection of copyright of literary and artistic works (as printed on page 7). The correct date on which States became Party...

In the case of the journalist E.V. Limonov (Savenko), Editor of the newspaper Limonka, the Court responsible for information disputes had to decide whether two articles ("Hand grenades at Croats" and "Black list of peoples"), published in Limonka, Nos. 13 and 16 (1995), were unconstitutional and therefore a ground for prosecution. The Constitution of the Russian Federation guarantees freedom of thought and of the spoken and written word, but Article 29 also prohibits any propaganda or agitation which foments social, racial, nationalistic or religious hatred or enmity. Glorification of war and...

In IRIS 1996-5: 7-10 we published an overview of the state of Signatures and Ratifications of European Conventions and other international treaties that are relevant to the audiovisual sector. We indicated that IRIS would keep you informed on a monthly basis of new signatures and ratification of relevant European Conventions. Therefore, we can now report that the: European Convention on Transfrontier Television was signed by Ukraine on 14 June 1996; and that the European Convention relating to questions on copyright law and neighbouring rights in the framework of transfrontier broadcasting by satellite,...

Legislation dated 19.7.1995 has amended the Russian Federation's legislation on copyright and neighbouring rights. One amendment concerns the wording of Article 11 on the law on copyright which sets out the copyright applicable to authors of anthologies and other collections involving the author's creative work in selecting and compiling material. The amended Article 35, paragraph 1(4) now specifically includes in the scope of related rights of practising artists the related rights of foreign natural and legal persons where they are acknowledged in international agreements in the territory of...