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National Assembly Passes New Bill Expanding Media Copyright Protection
Grisha Balasanyan
19:08, September 12, 2013
On September 10, Armenia's National Assembly unanimously passed a bill
amending the Law on Copyrights and Related Rights.
Passage of the bill signals the first serious effort to regulate
copyright issues that have plagued the electronic and print media in
Armenia, providing new weapons in the struggle against the `copy and
paste' culture so endemic in the country.
The bill was sponsored by MPs Arpineh Hovhannisyan, Galoust Sahakyan,
Artzvik Minasyan, Aghvan Vardanyan, Alexander Arzoumanyan, Gagik
Janhangiryan, Tevan Poghosyan and Davit Haroutyunyan.
Even though Armenia signed the Berne Convention for the Protection of
Literary and Artistic Works ten years ago, in addition to other
international copyright regulatory treaties, the problem of media
copyright infringement has only spread, especially in the expanding
field of internet `news' sites.
Why the problem has persisted remains a nagging question for many in
Armenia's media sector given that a fairly comprehensive `Law on
Copyright and Related Rights' was passed in 2006.
MP Arpineh Hovhannisyan told her colleagues that the bill contained
amendments demanded from a number of news outlets.
The bill's most important feature is that it expands the scope of what
types of news reporting will be legally protected from copyright
infringement.
According to existing law, reports about daily or ongoing news weren't
considered subjects of copyright protection. The new bill specifies
that the `choice' of daily news and events is considered copyright
protected if the mode of expression of such news is the result of
creative effort.
Another article of the bill limits the amount of material that one
internet news site or print newspaper can reproduce/republish from
another.
The article specifies that the permissible amount to be republished,
without the consent of the original author, should just be enough to
`justify' the aim of republished citation. It goes on to say that
regardless of the republished amount, it must never reveal the
essential core, the crux, of the original material.
Here, the new law is attempting to protect the original source from
losing readers by having its material appearing elsewhere,
Articles and material can only reproduced in full with the consent of
the author and according to conditions defined in a mutually
negotiated contract.
http://hetq.am/eng/news/29307/national-assembly-passes-new-bill-expanding-media-copyright-protection.html
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
Grisha Balasanyan
19:08, September 12, 2013
On September 10, Armenia's National Assembly unanimously passed a bill
amending the Law on Copyrights and Related Rights.
Passage of the bill signals the first serious effort to regulate
copyright issues that have plagued the electronic and print media in
Armenia, providing new weapons in the struggle against the `copy and
paste' culture so endemic in the country.
The bill was sponsored by MPs Arpineh Hovhannisyan, Galoust Sahakyan,
Artzvik Minasyan, Aghvan Vardanyan, Alexander Arzoumanyan, Gagik
Janhangiryan, Tevan Poghosyan and Davit Haroutyunyan.
Even though Armenia signed the Berne Convention for the Protection of
Literary and Artistic Works ten years ago, in addition to other
international copyright regulatory treaties, the problem of media
copyright infringement has only spread, especially in the expanding
field of internet `news' sites.
Why the problem has persisted remains a nagging question for many in
Armenia's media sector given that a fairly comprehensive `Law on
Copyright and Related Rights' was passed in 2006.
MP Arpineh Hovhannisyan told her colleagues that the bill contained
amendments demanded from a number of news outlets.
The bill's most important feature is that it expands the scope of what
types of news reporting will be legally protected from copyright
infringement.
According to existing law, reports about daily or ongoing news weren't
considered subjects of copyright protection. The new bill specifies
that the `choice' of daily news and events is considered copyright
protected if the mode of expression of such news is the result of
creative effort.
Another article of the bill limits the amount of material that one
internet news site or print newspaper can reproduce/republish from
another.
The article specifies that the permissible amount to be republished,
without the consent of the original author, should just be enough to
`justify' the aim of republished citation. It goes on to say that
regardless of the republished amount, it must never reveal the
essential core, the crux, of the original material.
Here, the new law is attempting to protect the original source from
losing readers by having its material appearing elsewhere,
Articles and material can only reproduced in full with the consent of
the author and according to conditions defined in a mutually
negotiated contract.
http://hetq.am/eng/news/29307/national-assembly-passes-new-bill-expanding-media-copyright-protection.html
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress