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On July 20, 2012 General Director of VOIS Andrey Krichevskiy met Carlos Pastor – Director of the Spanish collecting society AIE – in Madrid. In October, 2011 VOIS and AIE signed a bilateral agreement according to which both parties collect remuneration for the public use of music phonograms on behalf of Russian and Spanish right…

2-5 May, 2012 Laurence Oxenbury – the representative of the British society PPL – visited VOIS office in Moscow. During the official visit Laurence Oxenbury studied the work of VOIS: the structure of the organization, the activity of its departments, the automatic system of distribution of remuneration. He also studied users’ reports presented to VOIS.…

37th SCAPR General Assembly was held from 21st to 25th May, 2012 in Bled, Slovenia. SCAPR – Societies Council for the Collective Management of Performers Rights – unites members from almost 50 countries. This year the main events of the General Assembly were the adoption of the new Statute of the organization and incorporation of…

VOIS took part in Subregional seminar “Protection of Copyright, Related Rights and Collective Management” which was held on April 3-4, 2012 in Uzbekistan. The seminar was organized by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in cooperation with the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC) and the Agency on Intellectual Property of the…

VOIS became a partner of the First International Forum “Anti-Counterfeiting-2012” which was held in Moscow in IEC “Crocus Expo” on October 22-24, 2012. Representatives of VOIS visited the Plenary Session and took part in the Forum Panel Discussions. The First International Forum “Anti-Counterfeiting-2012” was devoted to the problems of formation of the civilized market and…

VOIS concluded a bilateral agreement with Estonian collecting society EEL. According to the bilateral agreement the performers of both countries will be protected equally on the contracting territories. Background information Estonian Performers Association (EEL) is a non-profit organization established at the beginning of 2000. EEL administers and promotes performers rights, collects remuneration under the Copyright…

On January 16, 2012 representatives of the Holland collecting society on neighboring rights – Natalie Loop (Director of the International Department) and Paul Smelt (Director of the Repartition Department) – visited VOIS. The main aim of the official visit was the examination of the work of VOIS as the sole Russian state accredited organization on…

VOIS took part in MIDEM – the largest international music industry trade fair which was held from 28 to 31 January 2012 in Cannes (France) and brought together attendees from all over the world. In the framework of MIDEM VOIS delegation met with a number of collective management societies including SENA (Holland), RAAP (Ireland), AIE…

On May, 17-19, 2011 the 36-th annual General Assembly of SCAPR was held in Washington (USA). The Societies’ Council for the Collective Management of Performers’ Rights (SCAPR) unites performers’ rights organizations. Today 41 society from more than 30 countries from all over the world jointed SCAPR. This year the participants of General Assembly discussed a…

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…