Right holders on Telegram to Google

Google has said they don’t know anything about it

Yesterday the first meeting of Russian rightholders with representatives of Google was held. The organizer was the Roskomnadzor.

It was assumed that the main theme of the seminar will be the presentation of Google Copyright Advisor John Caleb Donaldson. He planned to tell how holders interact with Google out of court.

But the right holders used the opportunity to send a stream of complaints to Google. The main object of the claims is Telegram, which does not respect copyright at all. The owner of the Google Play application catalog was asked to push Telegram to respond quickly to complaints about pirated content. With such a request to the American corporation turned representatives of the music, film and book industry.
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Rightholders believe that there are too many bots in the Telegram messenger that distribute pirated content.

“We were interested in why illegal content is not being removed from the Telegram messenger,” said Leonid Agronov, head of the national federation of the music industry. - We asked the Telegram to influence. At Google, they said that they know nothing about this application. ”

Since Donaldson does not know anything about Telegram, right holders right at the seminar showed how the RuTracker bot works.



“Google told that they remove applications for systematic copyright infringements, which we point out, and if there is no response, then go to court with a lawsuit,” Maxim Ryabyko, head of the Internet Copyright Protection Association (AZAPI), voiced a threat. - While we do not want to do this. We hope Google will hear us. For them, the situation with the messenger is new, and they do not understand the seriousness of the problem. They believe that these are isolated cases that occurred by mistake. ”

“Google, as the owner of the platform through which the application is distributed, must take action and put pressure on the developers,” said the head of the Internet Video Association, Alexey Byrdin.

At the end of the seminar, John Caleb Donaldson recommended sending an official letter to Google requesting the creation of a working group to resolve the copyright issue.

UPD. 04/13/2016 at around 16:00, it was discovered that access to one of the pirated Telegram bots, the KinoFilm bot, was lost. When you try to connect, a message is displayed: "Sorry, the channel is not available due to copyright infringement." Did the telegram administration listen to copyright holders?

UPD2 The Kinoxa channel is also locked.