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Author : G. Ivliyev
Federal Service for Intellectual Property (Rospatent)
Inventions are patented where they are in demand
most of all. Naturally, if our economy is passive, not
responsive to inventions and patents these ideas ma-
terialize on a different market, which is more
adapted to innovations and which is more techno-
logically advanced. It is right to say, there would be
nothing terrible about this if this invention was also
utilized by our economy. However, when this is not
so, when other countries get competitive advantages
that is wrong. But on the whole, the international
protection system is organized so that you can protect your rights both in Russia and in other
countries.
If we display greater initiative in providing support for the practical use of intellectual property
objects, we will follow the path of the U.S. and China, and we will have more patents and more
intellectual property to show for it in the national economy.
It is very important for us of course to resolve the problem that continues to affect society,
specifically Internet piracy. Authors cannot receive remuneration for their work, because their
product goes online and is disseminated there. An author has spent a lot of time, effort and cre-
ative energy; an entire team has worked on a film or a video clip; an investor has provided sig-
nificant funding, but there is no return on that.
We can see that the Internet industry is developing successfully. Today, all of its users want the
situation to continue, but the financial gains that the industry receives do not reach the author.
CISAC is one of the world's intellectual property organizations. Collective management is prac-
ticed in 30 countries. This is an effective form of work. It is absolutely wrong to speak about
the introduction of some contractual formula now.
It is necessary to create a cultural environment and explain that downloading unlawful content
is piracy, the infringement of other people's intellectual property rights. Many people believe
that it is okay to steal a film from a film director: After all, this is not the same as stealing sausage
from a supermarket.
We should propose a general regulatory mechanism not at the user's level, but at the level of an
Internet agent, operator, service provider, the state, and copyright owner. The aim is to protect
the user's rights and expand these rights. If we adopt a different model we will hurt our society
a great deal.
If a similar system is put in place now it will not remove some artificial barriers but will eliminate
incentives for action to promote something. If inventors who have protected themselves with a
patent are focused on ways of putting their invention into practice throughout the world, then
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