Russian Organization for Multimedia and Digital Systems (ROMS, Russian: РОМС), also known as Russian Multimedia and Internet Society is a Russian
collective rights management organization. ROMS is a body designated by Russian law for collecting and distributing statutory
copyright
A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive right to copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform a creative work, usually for a limited time. The creative work may be in a literary, artistic, educatio ...
royalty payments from
radio stations
Radio broadcasting is transmission of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radio sta ...
and Internet download sites in Russia. It is disputed whether they are authorized by law to allow music for download. This is currently pending in the Russian legal system.
Timeline
* Was created in 2000 by
Russian Authors Society.
* Banned from payment services by its credit card processor company
Chronopay due to a law dispute. ROMS filed a complaint with the Prosecutor's Office against ChronoPay and its owner
Pavel Vrublevsky, claiming a market monopolisation by it. This complaint resulted in neither judicial nor criminal action.
* Out of operations from 2009 after changing Russian copyright law in 2008.
Websites
References
External links
ROMS website in Russian
Copyright collection societies
Music organizations based in Russia
Organizations established in 2000
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