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VOIS participated in the Second UNESCO World Forum on Culture and Cultural Industries – The Book Tomorrow: The Future of the Written Word, which was held on June, 6-8 in Monza, Italy. General Director of RUR Andrey Krichevskiy took part in the workshop «Fair use, creative commons» and made a report on how it is…

In the middle of June, 2011 VOIS concluded a bilateral agreement with Irish collecting society RAAP. According to the bilateral agreement the performers of the both countries will be protected equally on the contracting territories. RAAP (Recorded Artists Actors Performers) is a not-for-profit company, limited by guarantee, for recorded artists, actors and performers in Ireland.…

The international seminar “Protection of copyright, related rights and collective management” was held on March 30-31, 2011 in Astana (the capital of the Republic Kazakhstan). It was organized by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the Committee for Intellectual Property Rights, Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Kazakhstan in cooperation with the International…

National seminar “Protection of authors’ and relative rights and collective management” was held in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic on 1-2 March, 2011. The event was organized by the State Intellectual Property Service of Kyrgyzstan with the support of the World Intellectual property Organization (WIPO). Cabinet members of Kyrgyzstan, international experts, representatives of IFRRO, Russian Authors’ Society…

Friday 10 December, 2010 Ian Henderson (Managing director of Sony Music Entertainment, Russia) with his panel visited VOIS. Andrey Krichevskiy  – General Director of VOIS – gave a full overview of VOIS activity, its structure and further steps to develop collective managment in Russia. Ian Henderson was satisfied with given picture and wished Sony to…

On the 1st of December, 2010 IFPI took the representatives of VOIS. The meeting was organized by IFPI with participation of major companies: Sony, Warner, UMG, EMI. Andrey Krichevskiy described the curent situation in Russia and answered the questions. He noted that VOIS is interested in to be a participant of IFPI team and its…

VOIS and LIGA have concluded the bilaterial agreements to represent parties on the proper territories. LIGA is the oldest and the most experienced organization for collective administration of related rights within the Ukraine. LIGA has been collecting remuneration for several reacent years in the country. Ukraine is the biggest foriegn country where music of russian…

Since accreditation August 2009 VOIS due to local law is obligated to distribute and pay out remuneration four times a year. During that time VOIS managed to collect more than ?16,500 mln and distribute and pay out about ? 9,000 mln. VOIS is calling for right holders to be more active to receive their remuneration.…

6 – 10 September, 2010 the XVI International Conference «The current issues of the intellectual property» was held in Yalta (Ukraine) and was devoted to the IPR infringement, the sphere of intellectual property using and other issues. This meeting was organized by the State Department for Intellectual Property of the Education and Science’s     Ministry (Ukraine),…

On the 27th of August 2010 the Arbitration Court of the Moscow region adjudged to nonsuit ROUPI in petition to nullify the orders of Rosohrankultura which granted VOIS the state accreditation.  By that the Arbitration Court recognized the legitimacy of the accreditation commission’s result granting VOIS the rights to be the sole society in Russia…