The court ordered the “VKontakte” use copyright protection technology – RBC

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The Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg and Leningrad region on the suit studios Universal Music and Warner Music ordered the social network” VKontakte “to implement technology to prevent copyright infringement. This is stated in the message of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), which represented the interests of record companies.

«Court at the request of the companies demanded that the” VKontakte “use of effective technology to prevent downloading of audio companies to the site, which includes the removal of from “VKontake” company-owned tracks and preventing their appearance on the site in the future “, – said in a statement.

The head of IFPI Francis Moore was quoted as saying in a statement, called the decision an important and positive for the Russian music market. According to him, violates the rights of record companies service “VKontakte”, “it was a huge obstacle to the development of the license business in Russia, providing access to hundreds of thousands of pirated tracks more than 70 million users a day».

According to the source ” Offices “, close to the social network, such a system at the” VKontakte “has developed. According to another source in the record company, this solution creates a formal pressure on the “VKontakte”, which is essentially a court forces to negotiate with the owners.

Litigation “VKontakte” with the record companies started in April 2014 . Then, to the social networks were filed three lawsuits from Warner Music UK Limited, Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music. Rights holders have accused the social network for distributing pirated content and demanded monetary compensation totaling 51.6 million rubles.

At the end of July, wrote RBC court between Sony Music Entertainment and “VKontakte”, ended the settlement agreement.

As previously reported by “Vedomosti”, citing sources close to all parties to the process, the Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg and Leningrad region did not satisfy the claims record company Warner and Universal to the social network “VKontakte” (required to recover from the with social networks 20.4 million rubles. and 15.4 million rubles.)

Claims Universal Music audio concerned Roma and Natalia Gordienko Gyeonggi. Warner Music, in turn, insisted on the removal of songs Rumer, Charli XCX and Liane La Havas. In addition, claims studios indicated a requirement to introduce the technology of “digital fingerprint” to cut off new copies of these compositions in the future. It allows you to automatically detect that a new file downloaded by the user, is a copy of a specific content.