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In IRIS 1995-1 we reported on a draft Statute on State support for the Mass Media in the Russian Federation. Now we can add that the State Duma approved the Bill in November 1994 after three readings, but that it was then rejected by the upper house, The Council of the Federation on 9 December 1994. The original text was published in Rossiyskaya gazeta of 2 November 1994.

The Recommendation clarifies the following questions raised by ITAR-TASS, by explaining the Russian Copyright Act: 1. Is an information product that is created by the collective of an agency and disseminated to consumers of information protected by copyright? 2. Does ITAR-TASS have the right to use a copyright sign and place it on its information products? 3. Can news agencies and mass media organisations collect money for an ITAR-TASS information product when they adapt it to fit their specific conditions and regional features?

A draft Statute to regulate the procedure for State support for the mass media and for book publishing as an integral part of Russian mass legislation on the mass media. The draft also contains provisions on the privatisation of facilities providing backup to the operation of mass media and book publishing. The draft Statute proposes that some of the provisions should enter into force on 1 January 1995, the draft had not yet been enacted into law on 6 January 1995.

The Mass Media Committee of the State Duma of the Russian Federationís Federal Council has prepared a draft Statute on radio and television. The draft recognizes the right of citizens to freely seek out, receive, produce and distribute information through television and radio. Radio and television broadcasting can only be restricted as envisaged in the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the Mass Media Act, the Copyright Act and the Radio and Television Broadcasting Act (after the draft Statute has been adopted). The draft Statute contains provisions on the organisation of radio and television...