At the meeting of the industry guilds of the "Russian Creative Week", representatives of the Federal and Moscow City Duma, the Presidential Administration and members of professional guilds, including the Director General of the NFMI Nikita Danilov, supported initiatives for the development of creative industries. Since the creative industries represent a synthesis of many industries that need a new format of work in lawmaking, a new format of work will begin in September together with the State Duma with the participation of various committees on culture, economy, and digital development. Following the results of the session, a large list of proposals from professional guilds on legislative initiatives will be compiled. The final proposal will be sent to the relevant committees and departments, the State Duma and the Moscow City Duma, curators in the Presidential Administration.
The NFMI, as a representative of the music industry, has also prepared a package of proposals to improve legal regulation and eliminate administrative barriers.
Nikita Danilov also noted at the guilds meeting: "It is extremely important to maintain a cross-industrial conversation on an ongoing basis and create an interdepartmental platform, possibly based on the Roskultcenter." Among the peculiarities of the music industry, the speaker noted that foreign labels do not withdraw their content from Russian services and today music is available to Russians in the same volume, with the exception of upcoming new releases — this is a matter of further negotiations and agreements. At the same time, the share of new releases in the music industry is 5-10%. Nikita Danilov stressed that it is important to maintain cooperation with foreign labels that promote Russian artists abroad.
St. Petersburg International Legal Forum
At one of the sessions of the anniversary St. Petersburg International Legal Forum, lawyers talked about compulsory licensing of music and medicines, called for more protection of consumers of intellectual labor and argued about whether artificial intelligence can be recognized as the author of any work.
One of the moderators of the discussion was the head of the Department of Intellectual Rights of the Russian School of Private Law Elena Pavlova. "We often hear statements that in modern conditions it is necessary to forget about the protection of intellectual rights. To me, these conversations seem very dangerous: it's easy to break, but it's very difficult to restore and do it again. Intellectual property rights are necessary under any conditions," she said.
Nikita Danilov, Director General of the NFMI, noted: "The introduction of compulsory licenses can completely scare foreign copyright holders away from the Russian market." For example, music companies that are seriously investing in content creation in Russia. Compulsory licensing will not help the fight against piracy in any way, Danilov is sure. "Moreover, the use of musical works without the consent of the copyright owner may be perceived as piracy in foreign jurisdictions. This may lead to the exclusion of Russian streaming services from Google Play and the App Store," the expert warned.
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