Verkhovna Rada adopted in first reading a law establishing a tax on electronic media. The initiators of the bill were deputies from the Party of Regions, Communist Party and the Lytvyn Bloc Lutsky, Samoilyk and Zarubinskyi. This law provides that authors of literary, photographic and graphic works or excerpts are entitled to receive remuneration for the reproduction of these works. Payment of such compensation is assigned to: 1) persons carrying out works of reprographic reproduction of copies of the way (by copying. - Ed.), 2) producers and (or) importers of equipment and (or) material media with which to implement the reprographic reproduction of works . This means that under the Act subject to any appliances, capable of producing objects of copyright - flash drives, printers, CD / DVD-drives, etc. To import goods into the Ukraine, will not only have to pay the appropriate share of the fee, but to get in front of this certificate on its payments: The facility, which confers rights on the collection and distribution of remuneration shall be entitled to receive information about the implementation of such technology. Procedure for collecting fees, the amount and terms of payment of these fees provided for in the second part of this section shall be established by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine defined as a list of equipment and material carriers, with which you can make reprographic reproduction of works. The collected funds are allocated and paid in the following proportions: Author - 60%, publishers - 40%. The bill was adopted by the Verkhovna Rada in the first reading, 249 people's deputies voted in favor. Interestingly, in neighboring Russia, a similar initiative, proposed by Nikita Mikhalkov, has failed. In late 2010 the Russian Union of owners headed by Mikhalkov, was responsible for the collection and distribution of such funds. But in January 2011, the Moscow Arbitration Court has banned the provision, and now the process is blocked.
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