“VKontakte” sent holders – Express-News

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The administration of social network “VKontakte” ceased negotiations with representatives of the Association for the Protection of Copyright on the Internet (AZAPO). Such a statement was made by a spokesman for the social network Evgeny Krasnikov.

«After the suit 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. Instead of a constructive conversation we impose legal claims. The true purpose of the plaintiff, in our opinion, is not to protect their rights and to put pressure on “VKontakte”, – said Krasnikov.

Recall that in mid-February was the owners filed a lawsuit against “VKontakte” about copyright infringement Zahara Prilepina the book “Resident”. It is worth noting that AZAPO and “VKontakte” long-standing relationship, and not always they were cloudless.

«Even ignoring our formal proposals on cooperation. Our goal – to urge “VKontakte” adequately interact with the book industry “, – said General Director AZAPO Maxim Ryabyko

Meanwhile, the author of” Resident “does not know anything about the filed lawsuit

«.. I learned a minute ago by journalists, I can not know about it, because the rights to the novel belong to my publishers. My publishers have some of his legal rights “, – said Prilepin

Recall that in February, the social network has entered into a settlement agreement with the studio” Union. “. The litigation lasted since 2013. Pirate content, which consisted of groups of tracks, “King and the Clown,” “Hands Up”, “Aria”, as well as singers trees and Lyubov Assumption, has been removed from the social network.

Also, “peace” broke up ” VKontakte “with the company” Nikitin EmDiSi “where the reason for the litigation began ten songs Grigory Leps.

Earlier,” Izvestia “, citing sources close to the” VKontakte “, said that after AZAPO filed suit in the Moscow City Court to adopt provisional interim measures, social network management met with the owners and discussed different mechanisms of legalization of content, in particular, its monetization. “VKontakte” agreed on what to make content partially free: the user sees a part of the book, but in order to read it, you need to go to the site right holder

The attempt to implement such a mechanism undertaken with Apple.. The application “VKontakte” for iOS user can listen to only a part of the music recording, and to get the full record had to buy it in iTunes. Such a mechanism does not get popular, and soon the music section has been removed from the “VKontakte” app for iOS.

According to the head of the Association of Maxim Ryabyko, they want the social network itself followed the content uploaded by users.

Ryabyko said that now “VKontakte” believe in the word of the users that they have the right to downloadable content, but if the owner wants to remove, they are asking from him a large number of supporting documents.

The head of the regional public organization “Center of Internet Technologies” Sergey Grebennikov said he filed a claim may, of course, affect the negotiation process, but it is hoped that as a result of the negotiations will continue.