Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Roskomnadzor threatens blocking YouTube for copyright infringement – Kommersant

Roskomnadzor warned it could block YouTube in Russia. Channel TNT has achieved in the Moscow City Court imposed on video sharing interim measures for the placement of the popular television series “Fizruk” and “Chernobyl».

The Moscow City Court on April 7 took the preliminary provisional measures to protect the rights in the TV series “Fizruk” and “Chernobyl”, hosted on youtube.com, the press service of Roskomnadzor. The Court made such a determination on the claim of the right holder channel TNT series that did not consent to their placement. The initial notification of copyright infringement has been directed administration YouTube April 8, 2015, after which the video was removed illegally, but later re-housed more than once, Roskomnadzor points.

July 20, 2015 monitor series, the “Fizruk” and “Chernobyl” on YouTube showed 137 links to illegal content, in this case in spite of the notice with a request to remove them, access to them is not limited to, the report said Roskomnadzor. How to convince the correspondent of “b”, for a number of video links “no longer available due to allegations of copyright infringement received from OAO” TNT Television Network ”, but for some links to look “fizruk” still manages.

On Monday, July 27 separate YouTube page will be included in the register of copyright violators, warns Roskomnadzor. If you do not remove pirated content, three days access to these links will be limited to Internet service providers, and for individual subscribers of Internet providers can be blocked access to the entire YouTube. Roskomnadzor “relies on strict performance video portal administration” the court decision. The representative of the Russian office of Google (owns YouTube) declined to comment.

«Fizruk” and “Chernobyl” one of the most popular projects of TNT. Channel trying to monetize them to the legal grounds, for example, Tnt-online.ru and video hosting Rutube and Now.ru (like TNT, is a holding company “Gazprom-Media”). There you can watch these TV shows for free in exchange for viewing ads.

anti-piracy legislation in the field of cinema and television works since August of 2013, in November 2014, President Vladimir Putin signed amendments to the him that a May 1, 2015 will also be available on the music, books and software. Following the procedure on the basis of the Moscow City Court appointed interim measures Roskomnadzor within three working days shall send a notice of violation hosting provider site, which has one day to inform the client. If the site is not responding, the challenged content is blocked by operators for 15 days, during which the right holder must file a lawsuit.

Anna Afanasyeva


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