06.03.2016 16:01
“VKontakte” ceased negotiations with the Association for the protection of copyright after a lawsuit. Earlier, media reported that after the filing of the claim in the Moscow City Court AZAPO social network management allegedly met with the owners and discussed different mechanisms of legalization content
The Social network” VKontakte “ceased negotiations with the Association for the protection of copyright on the Internet (AZAPO) after the last lawsuit. BelTA Tass press secretary of the social network Evgeny Krasnikov
“After filing a lawsuit in the Moscow City Court believe any discussion of business issues with the plaintiffs closed All questions will be solved in a purely formal legal plane.” -. Krasnikov said, . commenting on the publication of the alleged coordination of content legalization mechanisms after treatment association in court
it was reported earlier that the company is considering legal claims AZAPO as an attempt to pressure and expresses surprise that “only the beginning of a dialogue about the potential cooperation (with AZAPO – approx. Tass) so suddenly flowed in judicial claims “.
Requirements AZAPO
As reported by the site AZAPO, the Moscow City court on February 16 granted her application on blocking access to Zechariah Prilepina “Resident” in “VKontakte”.
But, as stated in the association, it is still available for download at the same address. AZAPO announced its intention to sue the administration of social networks, which, as the representatives of the plaintiff insist, “does not allow users to re-post on the website the content of which has already received a complaint”.
The association also puts forward proposals for the order to be changed, concerning the rights of users to post content to social networks. In AZAPO also insist that an agreement with an unidentified person “may not provide” the administration of social network status information broker.
appeared in previous publications of the media with reference to the “close to” VKontakte “resources,” indicated that after the filing of the claim in the Moscow City Court AZAPO guide social network allegedly met with the owners and discussed different mechanisms of content legalization. It was also alleged that “VKontakte” allegedly agreed to it to make content partially free, when the user sees the book, but to her to read, he should go to the original resource.
The position of the social network
in the administration “VKontakte” previously stressed that help the development of the legal content market in Russia is able to precisely dialogue about the models and methods to monetize content for rights holders.
Examples of this dialogue can be considered permission disputes with the federal TV channels by “pro-active negotiations”, as well as the settlement of the music content from Sony music (last July) and with the studio “Union” (last month).
“Our previous experience shows that this (legal claims -. approx Tass) -. a road to nowhere All previously done work on the legalization of the content on the site of social network was a logical continuation of open dialogue about the models and monetization methods for rights holders, as evidenced by a series of signed agreements and international agreements ” – Krasnikov indicated
“VKontakte” is the largest European social network of over 340 million registered accounts.. Every month, according to company statistics, the site go more than 90 million users.
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