Our story continues about the revolutionary amendments to the civil code. Here is the background in the posts on Habré:
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The State Duma held
parliamentary hearings on the topic “Legislative support for the development of information and communication technologies in the Russian Federation” .
The hearings were organized by the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications, RAEC and the Runet Development project, which, after the parliamentary hearings, submitted
Recommendations (to the Federal Assembly, the State Duma Office and the Committee on Regulations and Organization of the State Duma, the Government of the Russian Federation and federal executive bodies authorities) to improve the Russian legislation.
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Paragraph 3 of these recommendations that reads:
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When making a bill on amendments to Section VII of Part 4 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, prepared pursuant to Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of July 18, 2008 No. 1108, to the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation include in it amendments elaborated by the industry and sent earlier to Research Center for Private Law under the President of the Russian Federation (see Appendix No. 1). "
In
Annex 1 , in which amendments to the Civil Code were formulated, with the assistance of RAEC, some amendments proposed by
Wikimedia RU were included. In particular, changes to articles 1233 and 1276 (on
free licenses and
freedom of panorama ).
As for the freedom of panorama, the proposed text reads as follows: “
Free use is allowed by reproducing and distributing manufactured copies, broadcasting or cabled, communicating to the public in the form of images of works of architecture in the form of buildings and structures, urban planning, landscape gardening , monumental and decorative arts, as well as other established as a result of creative work of elements of material culture, located in a place open to free settlement scheniya, or near visible from this place. "
According to Wikipedia , “monuments and memorial sculptural compositions belong to monumental art,” which, as I understand it, means that freedom of panorama will be introduced not only for buildings, but also for sculptures. Hooray! Pah-pah-pah.
Also, the law is proposed to add the phrase “
In the absence of a copyright holder’s statement of the territory where it is allowed to use the result of intellectual activity free of charge, its use is allowed in all countries of the world ”, which I understand will make
the GNU GPL fully functional. Let me remind you that now the GNU GPL in Russia does not work as it should, because according to the law if the contract does not specify the territory, then the territory of operation is limited only to Russia (just to remind you that, for example, the
Creative Commons licenses have no such problems and they work in Russia correctly).
Video of the hearings can be viewed on the site
duma2011.rocid.ru . A little bit about Creative Commons there at around 1:47.
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A. Akopov should also be present at the meeting, but he was not let in by the State Duma guards, because he came without a passport.
via Wikipedia / Stas Kozlovsky