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VKontakte refuses to remove the song “Hands up” and “Aria” on the complaint of the holders

“VKontakte” appealed the decision of Arbitration court of St.-Petersburg and Leningrad region, which ordered the social network to remove audio rights belong to the music Studio “Union”. Speech, in particular refers to such groups as “Hands up”, “Aria”, “Korn”. As reported TASS, the appeal is already registered. Date of its consideration is not appointed yet.

At the end of June 2015, the Tribunal made a decision on the claim of the Russian record label to “Vkontakte” in favor of “Union”. Now social networks have to constantly delete the downloaded tracks these groups. In addition, the company must pay the Studio compensation in the amount of 600 000 rubles. However, this is almost eight times less than was demanded by the copyright owners.

Studio “the Union” is suing “Vkontakte” from 2013. Record label seeking removal from the social network compositions of the group “Aria”, “Korn” and “Hands up”, as well as the payment of compensation in 4,575 million rubles Originally Vkontakte proved to the court that the record is placed by the users and the social network itself is only a mediator, and won. Then the hearing was closed to the press at the request of the social network. Behind closed doors it came to the intellectual property court and was remanded for a new trial.

Currently in Russia there is an extended version of “anti-piracy” law, which allows copyright holders to achieve lock of pirate websites. However, while the court registers only claims to small sites Roskomnadzor informally recommended that rights holders “do not touch” major sites, as they need to be legit on your own.

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