Government Decree № 829 of 14 October 2010 "On remuneration for free reproduction of phonograms and audiovisual works for personal use" is the royalty of 1% of the value in the field of electronic devices, the realized directly or remotely on the recording and playback of audio in the context and video not reflected in the market, many of the participants interviewed by RIA Novosti on Monday, none of them, but do not apply to the government's decision to consent. Decree identified a very extensive range of products, production or import of which by a 1% reduction in favor of an organization that accompanied the holders of the rights to the audio and video needs. This range includes all types of computers, cell phones, digital cameras, all types of media (not only digital, but analog), color TV, black and white video recorder, optical drives, flash drives, hard disks, DVD and other players, etc. A exception, however, for "professional equipment is not intended for use in the home." This means that, for example, on the value of networking equipment - that works with your Internet provider - holders receive 1% of any royalties. This is a very large quantities: the former president of the Association of trading companies and manufacturers of Consumer Electronic and Computer Equipment (RATEK) Alexander Onischuk told RIA Novosti that the royalties would amount to 150-200 million dollars per year. Market participants and experts to respond to a government decree № 829 reservations. Nobody expressed approval. Some have criticized the decision. Sergey Kozhevnikov, director of the audio-video company "Panasonic Russia," RIA Novosti said, "As a law-abiding company, we are going to pay these fees, but we believe that for consumers, they are not good. Retail prices on each cases rise, more than one percent. remarkable is the mechanism for determining an opaque product categories as well as the tax collection and distribution of funds subject. "Tanners' refers to the experience of countries which already introduced such legislation. According to him, it caused complaints from market participants. "We need more impressed with the following system has been successful in some countries -. Buying content such as music hard drive, receives copy immediately a license, and then use for personal purposes, this approach increases the cost of the product, but it has the to protect rights holders ", - said the representative of the" Panasonic Russia ". According to the manager of public relations "M. Video" Anton Panteleyev, the court will not affect the market development. The need for clean DVD drives on average 20% per year will be reduced, growing demand for game content on the plates remain between 20-25% per annum. "We do not expect growth in equipment investment has a price because of the emergence of a new tax, as yet not visible in the amplitude jumps exchange rates on the final price," - said Panteleyev. "In my opinion, the final prices do not change", - the expert said in another company, retail digital technology in Russia. In his view, invisible many other factors that affect the prices paid to the 1% for the end user. The Director of the Association of Computer and Information Technology (APKIT) Nikolai Komlev believes that a price increase, if it happens, will be barely noticeable to customers. According to him, the price change of 1% will affect invisible against the background of the ongoing inflation and other factors, prices. Director of Business Development believes in Russia and CIS market research firm Frost & Sullivan Tatiana Tolmacheva that the tax be built into the final price of goods, and in the end the consumer will pay for everything, even the one who does not pull against copyrights. "This tax is - technically simple administrative measure, an attempt to compensate for the loss of the right holder, it brings a digital society", - told RIA Novosti correspondent Tolmachev. In their view, it is unfair that the problems with the owner of related industries are solved. "It is reasonable to think by the owner of the new business, but to say this law and others like him the opposite - that owners do not want to change anything," - adds the analyst. The desire fees from manufacturers and importers of equipment rising only two organizations united owner - Russian Union of the copyright holder (RSP, President - Nikita Mikhalkov) and the Russian Association of Related Rights (painting, Executive Director - Angelica Korotaeva). The choice between them to make Rosokhrankultura.
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