Vedomosti won the appeal. RBC is ready to do the same
The newspaper "Vedomosti" won the appeal process against the holding "RBC Information Systems" . On December 20, the 9th Moscow Arbitration Court of Appeal recognized the fact that the defendant used the plaintiff’s copyright objects by the defendant, namely, more than 100 articles from the newspaper’s archive. But the amount of compensation payments assigned to the losing side did not satisfy Vedomosti, since it was reduced 1,000 times to 282 thousand rubles.
"It is difficult to explain what influenced the adoption of such a decision, - the newspaper is perplexed, because this is a gross violation of the law by the RBC." But, as Vedomosti’s chief editor Tatyana Lysova said in an interview with Expert , it was more important to create a precedent: “Many online publications constantly violate copyright law and are confident of their impunity, because the evidence seems to be simply removed: easy to take off. ” Ms. Lysova indicated that RBC not only reprinted the Vedomosti articles, but also appropriated the authorship to itself, apparently expecting that there would be no claim.
It took more than a year for Vedomosti to prove the validity of its claims. Recall, at the previous stage of the trial, the court rejected
the lawsuit of the newspaper, motivating it with the statement that the articles of journalists "Vedomosti" are not subject to copyright.
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Interestingly, this time it is not clear whether the last point in the history of loud litigation has been put. According to the publication “Business Petersburg” German Kaplun, chairman of the directors of RBC, the holding intends to file an appeal. This is despite the fact that today the 9th Arbitration Appeal Court denied RBC a lawsuit against Vedomosti, which was responsible for violating authorship (RBC accused the newspaper of illegal reproduction and distribution of articles borrowed from its paid information and analytical tape from 2002 to 2005 year).
“We haven’t received any reason from the court yet,” said Mr. Kaplun. According to him, RBC has no doubts about its own correctness, and the situation with the mutual claims of the two business publications is an “endless story” that will end in a year and a half. Of course, the holding is not going to pay compensation to Vedomosti.
"It is difficult to explain what influenced the adoption of such a decision, - the newspaper is perplexed, because this is a gross violation of the law by the RBC." But, as Vedomosti’s chief editor Tatyana Lysova said in an interview with Expert , it was more important to create a precedent: “Many online publications constantly violate copyright law and are confident of their impunity, because the evidence seems to be simply removed: easy to take off. ” Ms. Lysova indicated that RBC not only reprinted the Vedomosti articles, but also appropriated the authorship to itself, apparently expecting that there would be no claim.
It took more than a year for Vedomosti to prove the validity of its claims. Recall, at the previous stage of the trial, the court rejected
the lawsuit of the newspaper, motivating it with the statement that the articles of journalists "Vedomosti" are not subject to copyright.
')
Interestingly, this time it is not clear whether the last point in the history of loud litigation has been put. According to the publication “Business Petersburg” German Kaplun, chairman of the directors of RBC, the holding intends to file an appeal. This is despite the fact that today the 9th Arbitration Appeal Court denied RBC a lawsuit against Vedomosti, which was responsible for violating authorship (RBC accused the newspaper of illegal reproduction and distribution of articles borrowed from its paid information and analytical tape from 2002 to 2005 year).
“We haven’t received any reason from the court yet,” said Mr. Kaplun. According to him, RBC has no doubts about its own correctness, and the situation with the mutual claims of the two business publications is an “endless story” that will end in a year and a half. Of course, the holding is not going to pay compensation to Vedomosti.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/4869/
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