Russia enforces Internet IP protection

Copyright holders and key players among Russian IT companies have agreed to amend the current anti-piracy memorandum regarding the removal of domains of persistent copyright infringers from search results.

Upon the information received from the Media Communication Union, in accordance with the relevant agreement the amendments will take effect simultaneously with adoption of the law allocating the memorandum provisions. The document should bind search engines to delete the infringers’ web-sites from search results after receiving the relevant request from the Union concerning additional measures application, under the condition that copyright holders - participants of the memorandum have entered at least 100 links of such a site into any information systems (registries) created in accordance with the existing legislation.

According to Mikhail Dyomin, President of the Union, for three years since the document distribution over 31 million links have been deleted.

Reference:
The Memorandum of Cooperation in Protection of Exclusive Rights in the Digital Technologies Era was signed by right holders and major Internet companies on November 1, 2018. The document stands for exclusion of page indexes of web-sites violating copyright and related rights laws from search results. According to the agreement, copyright holders enter the illegal content links into a specially developed register. After that Internet services administrators remove the pirated links from search results within 6 hours, and the pirate audiovisual content is removed completely deleted from hosting sites.

Source: TASS.