the Russian Ministry of culture continues to develop the issue of benefits for certain categories of citizens, which can be partially exempt from the so-called "tax on Internet access". To be eligible for vulnerable groups of the population - pensioners, the disabled, schoolchildren and students. Recall that the initiator charges is the Russian Union of rights holders (RBC).

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the Russian Ministry of culture continues to develop the issue of benefits for certain categories of citizens, which can be partially exempt from the so-called "tax on Internet access". To be eligible for vulnerable groups of the population - pensioners, the disabled, schoolchildren and students. Recall that the initiator charges is the Russian Union of rights holders (RBC).

Formerly RBC proposed to be introduced in the civil code the notion of a global license. The holder uses a license that will actually refuse the protection of its copyright in the network - any Internet user will be free to use these works. Instead, each user will be charged a monthly fee, Izvestia writes.

As previously said the co-author of the concept of global licenses CEO of RBC Sergey Fedotov, the fee for each Internet user can be about 25 rubles per month. Russian regulators, among which the Ministry of communications and the Ministry of economic development, negatively related to the introduction of a tax on the Internet. A similar attitude in some departments of the presidential Administration of the Russian Federation. Against global licenses were also made by a number of American associations of right holders.

Implement [the bill on global licenses] it is impossible - there is no hardware-technical means for mass analyzing the content consumed online. According to the findings of the project organization "Giprosvyaz", the creation of such a system in Russia will cost billions of dollars," said the official representative of MTS Dmitry Solodovnikov. Moreover, the deployment system does not guarantee accurate accounting of use of the content.