{"id":602573,"date":"2023-01-26T23:36:28","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T05:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/26\/belarus-legalizes-piracy-of-intellectual-property-from-unfriendly-nations\/"},"modified":"2023-01-26T23:36:28","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T05:36:28","slug":"belarus-legalizes-piracy-of-intellectual-property-from-unfriendly-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/26\/belarus-legalizes-piracy-of-intellectual-property-from-unfriendly-nations\/","title":{"rendered":"Belarus Legalizes Piracy of Intellectual Property from \u2018Unfriendly Nations\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Belarus legalizes the piracy of intellectual property from \u2018unfriendly nations\u2019 after international sanctions limit the media, software, and technology allowed within the country.<\/span><\/h2>\n

The government of Belarus, led by President Alexander Lukashenko, has\u00a0<\/span>passed a law<\/span><\/a>\u00a0permitting the use of media and intellectual property, such as computer software, without the consent of rightsholders from \u201cunfriendly\u201d foreign nations. Lukashenko signed the proposal into law on January 3, meaning it is now legal in Belarus to access pirated audiovisual material and computer software if the rightsholders are from foreign bodies that \u201ccommit unfriendly actions against Belarusian legal entities\u201d or individuals.<\/span><\/p>\n

The bill defines \u201caudiovisual material\u201d as movies, music, and TV shows and also covers programs edited by a state organization, film distribution, or entertainment organization. Any pirated content imported into the country need only be labeled \u201cessential for the domestic market\u201d to be considered legal.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, when an individual or entity accesses unlicensed or pirated content, they must pay a remuneration fee to bank accounts operated by the government-owned National Patent Authority. Money sent to the National Patent Authority is to be held for three years to allow any international rightsholders to make a claim. If no claim is made, Belarus\u2019 government keeps the fee.<\/span><\/h4>\n

But the Belarusian government states that the new law will assist the development of the \u201cintellectual, spiritual, and moral potential of society\u201d and reduce the \u201ccritical shortage in the domestic market of food and other goods.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Belarus is a critical ally of Putin\u2019s Russia and has faced various financial sanctions from the European Union<\/a>, Canada<\/a>, the UK, and the US since 2020 when Lukashenko\u2019s regime took action against internal protests following the country\u2019s national elections widely recognized as fraudulent. Additional international sanctions introduced last year have prevented items like software and technology from entering Belarus over the country\u2019s support of Russia\u2019s invasion of and war against Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n

The country\u2019s piracy law will be in effect now until December 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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\n Stephania Mongold<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photo Credit: Reiseuhu.de Belarus legalizes the piracy of intellectual property from \u2018unfriendly nations\u2019 after international sanctions limit the media, software, and technology allowed within the country. The government of Belarus, led by President Alexander Lukashenko, has\u00a0passed a law\u00a0permitting the use of media and intellectual property, such as computer software, without the consent of rightsholders from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":602574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41154,534,103718],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-602573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belarus","category-financial","category-legalizes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}