President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Joomart Tokayev has ratified the agreement on 'Cooperation of the CIS Member States on the Protection and Enforcement of Rights to Copyright and Related Rights in Information and Telecommunication Networks'.

The agreement was adopted at a meeting of the CIS Council of Heads of Government on November 12, 2021. The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) was created after the collapse of the Soviet union and regroups Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakh...

The California State Assembly has passed the California Journalism Preservation Act (CJPA) in a floor vote of 46-6. The bill would require platforms, reaching at least 50 million US-based users, "to remit a journalism usage fee payment to each eligible digital journalism provider."

The bill — sponsored by California Assemblywoman Buffy Wicks (D-Oakland) — would also require an eligible digital journalism provider to spend at least 70% of funds received on news journalists and support staff ...

A City Court in Sofia ruled on 31 May 2023 that three ISPs in Bulgaria have to block access to BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay, local site Zamunda and all subsequent mirror sites, sub-domains and proxy sites.

The ruling follows action from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) alongside BAMP, the trade body representing music labels in Bulgaria, on behalf of its members and three member record companies of IFPI — Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group and W...