Cyril Bulanov
Internet companies have proposed amendments to the draft on online-cinemas
Internet companies agreed to restrictions on foreign ownership of online cinema, write “Vedomosti”. At the same time — to receive investments from foreigners is proposed to remove under Russian projects
How to write Vedomosti, Internet companies and online cinemas has prepared amendments to made to the end of November last year, the draft law on the regulation of online cinemas. According to the newspaper, the document is a table of amendments, it includes the proposals of the Association “Internet video”, the online cinema ivi.ru the Russian Association for electronic communications (RAEC), “Yandex” and Mail.ru Group.
According to two people close to the sponsors of the amendments, such amendments do developed. They have already received to the relevant Committee on the information policy in the lower house and will be discussed in the near future, told close to the Committee.
the Newspaper notes that the table does not contain amendments on the original amendments of the developer — Media-communication Union (ISS), which brings together operators and major media holdings, in particular “Gazprom-media”, “National media group” (NMG), “STS media”. According to close to the state Duma of man, ISS will present their proposals separately. A representative of the ISS declined to comment.
One of the main ideas of the amendment was the limitation of foreign ownership of the online cinemas a 20% attracted criticism from the Internet industry. However, as told “Vedomosti” a person familiar with the authors of the project and its amendments, to completely eliminate this rule will fail because the state has a great desire to accept it, especially the Cabinet the idea of limiting support. Government representatives at the meeting of the Committee on informality in December, explained the need for this measure because the video can influence what content users are watching Russia.
the industry went the compromise proposed to separate the video from the Russian foreign and to prescribe for them, different rules of regulation. Aliens to leave the limit at 20%, the projects are required to work only through legal entities registered in Russia. According to the author of the amendments, it will save services from Russian restrictions on foreign investment. The amendments relating to foreign ownership, as proposed by the Association “Internet video”, and RAEC Ivi.ru.
with regard to the delimitation of Russian and foreign projects, the foreign service will be recognized as one that works through foreign legal entity and whose audience in Russia does not exceed 50% of the total audience of the service. Russian service — the one in which the share of the local audience more than 50%. The owner of Russian video service should be a local legal entity, or a person with Russian citizenship.
Experts of the Internet industry is also ready to introduce amendments that would ensure a guaranteed hit under the bill foreign online like Netflix theaters, the “Vedomosti”. In particular, they proposed to reduce the threshold of audience services to be included in a special register, which proposed regulation of this market, with 100 thousand people a day to 20 thousand people.
“for Example, Netflix or other international services at the time of adoption of the law may not be the audience in the amount of one hundred thousand users per day and under the regulation will get only the Russian services, which currently occupy a leading position in the market, which is contrary to the idea of taking this bill,” explained the authors of the amendments.
the state Duma Committee on information policy has been amended, however, to rate them so far, said close to the Committee. According to him, it is necessary to understand how feasible these proposals and whether the restriction of foreign ownership is really working. Head of the Committee Leonid Levin declined to comment.
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