With all the backdoor threats of WIPOaAction that have beeen going on I,m suprised its taken them this long and kind of disappointed too.
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20060825/53142987.htmlRussia is going to simplify the procedure for enforcing copyrights and related rights, an Economic Development and Trade Ministry official said Friday.
The widespread violation of intellectual property rights is a bitter point of contention in the currently stalled bilateral World Trade Organization accession talks between Russia and the United States.
The U.S. has repeatedly demanded more effective steps to curb piracy in Russia, which it said costs American companies millions of dollars in losses.
"We are now preparing an array of measures, both on the legislative and on the law-enforcement level," said Yury Lyubimov, an aide to the economic development and trade minister.
He said Article 146 of the Russian Code of Criminal Procedure would be amended to refine the definition of copyright damages and simplify the procedure for assessing damages caused by copyright infringement.
This was agreed action from june so no big suprise either really, when allofmp3.com changes format and terms we will see how the new september regulations come into play.
