From December 1, Roskomnadzor will add to the black list sites with "pirated" music and books

The fight against so-called pirates continues: the Russian government has decided to add to the black lists of Roskomnadzor not only sites with pirated videos, but also sites with pirated music and text books.

Actually, the corresponding bill states that blacklists will include pirated resources with any type of counterfeit content, except for “photographic works and works obtained by methods similar to photographs”.
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In August last year, a law began operating in the Russian Federation allowing Roskomnadzor to block resources with counterfeit video. This is done after the copyright holder has prepared a complaint about the violation of their rights by such a resource, and the site administration has not responded to the request, and has not closed access to pages with counterfeit video.

In May of this year, First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Igor Shuvalov held a meeting at which it was decided to combine the proposals of individual deputies of the State Duma and the Ministry of Culture to strengthen the fight against pirates. As a result, a single-member working group under the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media took up the preparation of a single package with amendments. This working group included representatives of the Ministry of Culture, and holders of rights, representatives of Internet business, and, of course, deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation.

In addition, already in July, the deputies' proposals for amending certain provisions of the Law on Information, Information Technologies and Information Protection, as well as the Code on Administrative Offenses, were approved at the second reading in the Duma. During the meeting it was decided to finalize the document, then returning the deputies to the second reading.

But there was practically no processing, now the version of the finished document, which fell on the third reading, is almost identical to the version that was considered on the second reading. As far as one can understand, an interesting decision was chosen: first, to adopt the bill, its current version, and then finalize it.

Irina Levova, Director of Strategic Projects at the Internet Research Institute, commented on the situation as follows: “There is a feeling that there is no copyright policy or strategy in the country. There is only a set of disparate initiatives. But the policy in the field of intellectual property directly affects the innovative potential of the country and the speed of economic development. ”