Mail.Ru agreed to pay for the video

Less than a month later, VGTRK sued Mail.ru for copyright infringement. Recall that the lawsuit filed in the Moscow Arbitration Court was associated with copyright protection. As you know, on Mail.ru resources are laid out entire films owned by VGTRK. This could be the first trial in the history of Russian justice related to the theft of video content on the Internet, but ... the case did not come to court.

Today, Mail.ru press service solemnly announced the conclusion of an agreement on strategic partnership with the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, according to which the licensed content from the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company will be legally posted on the Video@Mail.Ru video hosting site . We are talking about such films and serials as “The Island”, “The Brigade”, “The March of the Turkish” and many others, as well as a large number of documentaries, television shows and news stories.

The parties also agreed to work together in the search for promising ways of development and monetization of video content on the Internet. Financial details of the agreement are not disclosed.