Saturday, April 11, 2015

Roscomnadzor: Internet memes with photos of celebrities break the law – Ferra

Roscomnadzor in his official account on the social network VKontakte published a clarification regarding the fake accounts, sites, and, most interestingly, the use of photos of celebrities for Internet memes that have no direct concern to them. Their point of view Roscomnadzor justifies reference to the Russian legislation on personal data in relation to public figures.


So, according Roscomnadzor violation of the law is:

  • Create the fake account on behalf of a public person (name, position, date of birth, photo, etc.) and its use (posts, comments)
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  • Create the fake site public personality. dedicated professional and social activities of public personality.
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  • Using the photo as a public person impersonation popular Internet meme, unrelated to the identity of “celebrity».

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Roscomnadzor stresses that these actions violate the requirements of the legislation on personal data and discredit honor, dignity and business reputation of public figures. Office in such cases refers to the administration of resources with the demand to remove illegal information if it does not happen – filed a lawsuit in court. Recall the other day was made Meshchansky Court of Moscow upheld the claim in respect of Roskomnadzora comic online encyclopedia “Lurkomore” and ordered the resource block BBPE article about meme. This meme has been recognized by Valery Syutkina personal data that can not be used without the consent of the owner.

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