Thursday, November 26, 2015

RW CPR and WIPO will be obliged to report to owners online – Proceedings

RW CPR and WIPO will be obliged to report to owners online

Photo: Lime / Vladimir Suvorov

Organization of non-contractual collective management will be transparent. They will be obliged to have an online registry where copyright holders can at any time to see how often their works are performed and how much is owed to them for that. These innovations are contained in the draft resolution of the Government to amend the “Regulations on the state accreditation of organizations engaged in copyright collective”, prepared by the Ministry of Culture. Comments on this subject in the department did not provide.

According to the text changes for state accreditation organization will need to establish an information system containing the register of holders and a list of the works they own. In this system, rights holders should be a personal account, through which they can obtain information on the distribution of the remuneration for the public performance of their works, as well as the amounts that are withheld from their organization for copyright management.

Now in Russia there are four state-accredited organizations for collective management of rights: Russian Authors’ Society (RAO; contributes to the authors of texts, music, etc.), All-Russian Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO deductions performers), the Russian Union of right holders (CPR; reward for listening to the citizens for personal purposes) and Partnership for the protection and management of rights in the field of art (UPRAVIS; contributions in favor of artists). Three of those companies are now in the process of unification – RW, CPR and WIPO. Even now they are affiliated with each other. Head of RAO and CPR – Sergey Fedotov. Until recently, the first deputy general director of ATN and concurrently head of WIPO was Andrew Krichevsky. However, as found “Izvestia”, August RAO are permutations and Krichevsky himself does not know whether he was deputy director general waste or not.

– I was elected to the governing bodies of the waste, but the powers I have not been provided, – explains the “Izvestiya” Krichevsky. – Communications with the management of radioactive waste for a long time can not be so clearly answer, I occupy any position in the waste, alas, I can not.

It so happened that the information system for rights holders to necessary properties recently introduced by WIPO. It should help the holders and the organization receiving the data from the cafes, shops, gyms and other public places – what kind of music is played there. Under the legislation of such institutions are required to provide information to WIPO, what music they twist and how many times a day, and make monetary contributions depending on the number of seats. WIPO on the basis of a report and the resulting data divides these amounts among owners. However, the administration of cafes, shops and gyms do not always have the ability to record the required data, because sometimes reports compiled after the fact, “by eye”.

For the holders, an agreement with WIPO, the new system will create a personal account, which will allow them to upload their music catalogs in the database, to give them a description, and get statistics about listening to their music and calculating the money.

The user of the system – the player that administrators cafes, shops, gyms, etc. will run at the institution for listening to music. It will be available a number of standard functions – for example, they can create their own playlists or take a ready formed respective owners.

– We fully support the amendments proposed by the Ministry of Culture and is already implementing a system of “My Account” for rights holders, – Krichevsky told “Izvestia”.

Representatives of RAO and CPR have not responded to the request of “Izvestia”, if they have such a system.

The general director of the Russian copyright organization “Kopirus” Vasily Terletskii sure to make an “objective” system would be difficult.

– These systems will improve the image of the organization and the situation of collective management. But it is difficult to ensure that such a system was fair – said Terlecki. – Obtain objective information – is very costly in terms of money. Also, I’m not sure that it is needed in all aspects of the collective management of copyright. I think the Ministry of Culture does not offer quite deliberate.

According to the Presidential Commissioner for the protection of the rights of entrepreneurs in the field of intellectual property Anatoly Semenov, a new document – a “simulated strike Italian».

– They We have issued a 10-year accredited waste in 2013, WIPO – in 2014 and CPR – in 2015. So how effective the new measure, it will be possible not earlier than in 2023, – he concluded.

As previously wrote “Izvestia”, the police checked the activities of four subsidiaries of RAO, the balance of which was transferred to the property in the amount of 500 million rubles. However, three out of four firms were liquidated within 2 years. According to “Izvestia”, General Directorate of Economic Security and Anti-Corruption Ministry of Internal Affairs examines the company in connection with the possible theft of assets.

A few days ago a member of the Board of RAO author, producer and composer Igor Matviyenko said that the waste is not functioning, blocked accounts of the organization, the audit business will soon be handed over to the prosecutor’s office. According to him, it comes to almost a billion embezzlement.

Sergey Fedotov is currently on vacation abroad. Earlier, in an interview to “Izvestia”, he said, he plans to return to Russia in mid-September, but he did not. According to several sources, Fedotov extended his leave until 31 December 2015. His mother, Vera Fedotova, who was previously the Chief Accountant of RAO, now holds the position of first deputy head of the society.

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