The Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI), together with representatives of relevant industries (music, cinema, animation, video games, etc.

The Ministry of Economic Development of the RF has prepared a draft federal law "On the Platform Economy".

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On December 28, 2024, the law on the free use of patriotic songs during commemorations came into force.

Significant amendments have been adopted to the Federal Law "On Advertising", according to which the duty is imposed on advertising distributors and operators of advertising systems that distribute online advertising aimed at the Russian Internet-audience.

The Commission for the Implementation of the Code of Ethics in the Field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has developed a recommendation document designed to systematize ethical practices and summarize the approaches acceptable and recommended for use in the development and configuration of recommendation algorithms, as well as in the implementation and operation of the functionality of personalized recommendations in digital services.

The bill was developed by the NFMI together with the Alliance in the Field of Artificial Intelligence.

The new law significantly increases court fees, which may negatively affect the procedural protection of the rights and interests of copyright holders.

A new law has been adopted, according to which, if the audience of a personal page (channel, blog) on a social network is more than 10,000 users, the user of the social network who created such a personal page (channel, blog) is obliged to:

1) provide information to Roskomnadzor that allows to identify such user.

According to a new law, creative industries include industries based on works of literature and art (including musical works), the results of publishing activities, the results of performing activities (including performances by performing artists) and phonograms.

1. Information about drugs in the works.

The main provisions of the law:

- The author or other rightholder of the object of copyright or related rights "is assumed to be unknown if his name or name is not established, or his name or name is established, but there is no information about the place of residence of a citizen or the address of a legal entity that allows you to send a legally significant message to the rightholder.

A bill banning advertising on prohibited resources is under consideration in the State Duma.

The Commission for the Implementation of the Code of Ethics in the Field of Artificial Intelligence has prepared "Ethical recommendations in the field of creating and using digital imitations of living, deceased and non–existent people" (hereinafter also referred to as the "Recommendations").

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A law was adopted that was in the sphere of attention of the NFMI - the "fifth antimonopoly package".

Since December 1, 2023, the owners of websites, mobile applications or other information systems ("owners of an information resource"), being Russian legal entities or citizens of the Russian Federation, in case of carrying out their activities on the territory of the Russian Federation, are limited in possible options for authorizing users located on the territory of the Russian Federation.

Recommendation technologies in the law are proposed to be understood as information technologies for providing information based on the collection, systematization and analysis of information related to the preferences of Internet users located on the territory of the Russian Federation.

Yandex.Music, together with individual market participants, has developed recommendations for materials on music services.

The FAS of Russia has prepared a new edition of the "fifth antimonopoly package".

The Federal Antitrust Service (FAS) fined Apple for 1.

The Ministry of Economic Development of the RF has developed a draft law on civil liability for persons initiating the blocking of intellectual property objects (content) on the Internet.

On August 17, 2022 the Government of the Russian Federation has approved a Plan for the development of creative industries.

On August 3, 2022, the Coordinating Council of the All-Russian Public-state Organization "Russian Center for the Turnover of Rights to the Results of Creative Activity" (OOGO "RCIS") approved an action plan.

In October 2021, the FAS initiated an antimonopoly case against the company.

Currently, the Intellectual Property Rights Court (SIP) is considering a case on the claim of the Russian Copyright Society (RAO, Russian CMO) against the City Palace of Culture of the city of Meleuz of the Republic of Bashkortostan.

In July 2022, amendments were made to the legislation on consumer protection, suggesting the creation of a Russian unified application store with mandatory pre-installation on certain types of technically complex devices.

On May 6, 2022, an order of the Ministry of Industry and Trade was published, which established a list of goods for "parallel import".

On October 21-22, 2021, a visiting meeting of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation on codification and improvement of civil legislation was held in Perm.

Rightholders and Internet companies signed a new version of the anti-piracy memorandum.

The online distribution of pirated copies of movies, TV series, music and books causes enormous damage to companies investing in content production.

The XIII International Conference, "Transport Networks Russia & CIS: Development of Backbone Networks", was held on March 17 - 18, 2022, in Moscow.

According to "Kommersant", music major labels are asking the Russian authorities not to rush into adopting draft amendments to the Civil Code on compulsory licensing, which would allow companies in Russia to use new media products despite sanctions.

According to "Vedomosti", a new version of the anti-piracy memorandum was signed at the end of 2021.

On December 6, 2021 with the support of the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation the round table "Internet in Russia" was held, at which a large RAEC study on the trends and results of the digital economy in 2020-2021 was presented.

At the international educational conference Distant & Digital, the session "Digital content: practical steps to counter piracy" was held.