Kiril Vozisov commented the innovations in the sphere of antipiracy policy for Deita.ru …

On May 1, 2015, the antipiracy law was amended and now any right holders may solve the problem connected with violation of their copyrights in Internet, prior to a trial, as stated by Deita Information Agency.

It should be recalled that now the law restricts the access not to films only, but to music, books and software as well. For now intellectual property protection does not cover photos and similar creations.

If right holders find in Internet the web site which contains any information involving any copyrighted items without prior consent, they may send a statement of violation directly to owner of such web site. It should be noted that such statement should contain some mandatory details, such as information on the object illegally posted, and availability of title to such object.

Upon consideration of statement, owner of web site removes the illegally posted information from his web site or sends to applicant a notice evidencing the eligibility to post such information.

If a web site repeatedly breaks the law posting any copyrighted work, a court may deliver a judgment to lock such web site and moreover, without the right to recover it.
In opinion of Kirill Vozisov, a partner of Inmar Legal Ltd, these innovations extend the previously accepted amendments concerning the persecution of a provider which in this case means a person promoted the posting, delivery or obtaining of information via Internet.

— At present, the European approach to the problem of prosecution of web intermediates is applied in Russia: a provider does not bear any responsibility for actions performed by users in case it meets the appropriate requirements connected with the nature of service provision and cooperation with data exchange subjects and persons which rights are violated by actions of users, as Kirill Vozisov said to Deita Information Agency.

Representative of the legal company noted that issues connected with development of the procedure for cooperation of a right holder, owner of a web site, hosting provider, justice and law enforcement authorities still had not been resolved but the positive alterations in this sphere are apparent.

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