"In Touch" will return to music users - Bulletin

As the “Vedomosti”, Russia’s largest social network “Vkontakte” started negotiations with record companies. The parties seek a compromise to allow users to legally listen to music, and rights holders get something for it

Pavel Durov turned to the right owners Photo: Gayane Manukyan / wikimedia

Russia’s largest social network « in contact” wants to negotiate with the world’s biggest record labels, to social network users can legally listen to recordings of musicians from their catalog. As told « Vedomosti” CEO and founder « In Touch” Pavel Durov, the social network with Sony Music, Warner Music and Universal Music looking for options that would suit the music publishers « without prejudice to the Russian Internet users.” « In the coming months we will see a positive change in this area,” – expects Durov. Two representatives of the music industry have confirmed « Sheets” on condition of anonymity that the majors are in talks with « In Touch ».

Until recently, users of the social network was loaded in it any video and audio, and with the owners and representatives of international legal services « in contact” was not cooperating. « We have many times more songs than you, not to our advantage” – so said Durov on the offer of cooperation to the founder of the popular music of paid service Spotify Daniel Ek, told about it in the book « Code Durov” journalist Nikolai Kononov.

However, « Sheets” Durov said that the social network is working on standards of U.S. law on copyright protection DMCA and remove audio and video on demand rights holders. However, this cleansing of illegal content in the social network began in June, when the State Duma introduced a bill on combating piracy on the Internet and blocking sites counterfeiting. Social network users have complained that it has disappeared from the large amount of music, mostly foreign artists, and many of them have received a notice from the administration of the network that they have uploaded to the record received complaints from owners. This week approved by the Duma and the Federation Council on the law signed by President Vladimir Putin, he will come into force on August 1. However, it is a question of fighting only with video piracy – music have decided not to touch it.