The Minister of Culture does not support the project of introducing a copyright fee on the Internet.

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At a closed meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov, Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky said that he was not a supporter of the project of the author’s collection on the Internet, Vedomosti reports. The meeting with Shuvalov was also attended by the Minister for Open Government Mikhail Abyzov, Minister of Communications Nikolay Nikiforov, director Nikita Mikhalkov, representatives of Internet companies, telecom operators and rightholders.

“I am not an ardent supporter of the global license in the first place because I don’t know how to respond to the five professional arguments voiced by the Minister of Communications. He understands this issue much deeper. I will add only the sixth argument that if we adopt the global license system in an unprotected form, this will have a bad effect on cinemas, ”Medinsky said.

It should be noted that earlier it was the Ministry of Culture that prepared the draft amendments on the so-called global license. The author of this idea is the Russian Union of Rights Holders, the board of the organization is headed by Nikita Mikhalkov. The essence of the idea is the need to obtain a global license by Russian telecom operators from an organization accredited by the state. In the spring of 2015, this initiative has already received negative reviews from most of the ministries and departments of the Russian Federation that are related to this area.
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Particularly actively opposes the draft global license of the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media, headed by Nikolai Nikiforov. At the meeting referred to above, the head of department once again declared that it was technically impossible to implement a global license. Even under the condition that the equipment necessary for the introduction of a global license will appear on the market, another $ 5 billion will be needed to implement such an idea.

According to Medinsky, it is worth fighting with piracy on the Internet, using the provisions of the current anti-piracy law.

Nevertheless, Nikita Mikhalkov believes that this law does not work, and it is necessary to introduce new ways to combat piracy. At the same time, representatives of the owners, who attended the meeting, said that they had enough of the current law.