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VOIS took part at the annual international meeting of performers in Сabourg (France)
VOIS has reached a set of agreements with foreign partners to comply the Russian performer rights outside of the country. The 10th anniversary meeting of European performers was held in Cabourg in December 2009, 10-11. The event was organized by ADAMI. More than 280 participants including performers, lawyers, producers, newsmen etc. took part in the…
VOIS participated in the international seminar in Kiev
The Ministry of Science of Ukraine, IFPI (International Federation of Phonographic Industry) and WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) on 30th June, 2010 organized a meeting concerning collective management in Ukraine. Presentations were made by representatives of WIPO, IFPI, the State Department of Intellectual Property of Ukraine (SDIP), collective management organizations in the field of related…
VOIS became a member of C.A.P.I.
Recently VOIS joined C.A.P.I. as a member. C.A.P.I. is a non-government organization that unites EU collective rights management societies. C.A.P.I. was founded in 2009, Italy. The main goals of C.A.P.I. are to develop efficient system for neighboring rights protection in EU countries and to monitor enforcement in IP area. VOIS is extremely interested in bilateral…
VOIS took part in SCAPR meeting
The meeting of SCAPR members was held in Bucharest (Rumania) on 26 May, 2010. VOIS took part in this meeting as an observer. Mr. Andrey Krichevsky made a detailed report about situation, concerning neighboring rights in Russia, and VOIS’s activity. “Cooperation between all societies is an efficient issue to comply the neighboring rights on the…
VOIS participated in the 14th session of the Intergovernmental Committee on Copyright, organized by UNESCO
The 14th session of the Intergovernmental Committee on Copyright was held on 7 and 9 June in Paris (France). VOIS, RAO and the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation took part at the meeting as representatives of the Russian Federation. The Intergovernmental Committee consists of 18 countries including Russia, USA, France, Greece, Austria, Argentina,…
VOIS and ASTERAS (Cyprus) fled into partnership
ASTERAS (Cyprus) is a non-government neighboring rights organization. According to the bilateral agreement the performers of the both countries will be protected equally on the contracting territories.
VOIS concluded agreements with APOLLON and ERATO (Greece)
In the middle of March, 2010 VOIS concluded two bilateral agreements with Greece collecting societies: APOLLON and ERATO. These agreements will certainly help VOIS to carry out collecting of the remuneration for Greece performers in Russia and, accordingly, in favor of Russian artists in Greece.
C.A.P.I invited VOIS
Forum of C.A.P.I was held on 23 February, 2010 in Brussels (Belgium) The participants from the EU neighboring rights collective management societies discussed many ‘hot’ questions such as fight against piracy, compliance the rights of performers and producers in digital era and etc. All the participants marked that a joint neighboring rights collective management society…
Guild of authors and performers of Uzbekistan (UzMIG) visited VOIS
4 August, 2010 the delegation of UzMIG visited VOIS. In accordance with the bilateral agreement signed in March, 2009 the parties summed up the current results and discussed the plans for future cooperation. The representatives of UzMIG presented the annual report of its activity and made a short overview about national legislation of copyright and…
US delegation visited VOIS
28 July, 2010 the representative of the Executive Office of the President Office of the U.S. Trade Representation, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Intellectual Property and Innovation Mr. Stanford McCoy, Senior Counsel for Policy & International Affairs of the US Copyright office Mrs. Michele J. Woods and Senior trade officer economic section of the Embassy…
