Fines and copywriting: how it happens in Chuvashia

Four days ago, I told Habrahabr a story about an Irish saleswoman who sang at work, and that they wanted to subject them to many thousands of fines because the saleswoman didn’t enter into an agreement with the right holders of the songs she sang, did not have a license to perform. This story ended without harm for the saleswoman, because public outrage, which spilled out in the media, forced the copywriters to stop, forced them to apologize to the victim and leave her alone.

Some readers took an interest in the comments: what would happen if such a story happened to some employee not in the West, but somewhere in Russia? - and what would happen if any public attention and media would not receive such a story? Would it really be true that a sentence would come true, would a fine of thousands of people be charged?

I was looking for a graphic answer to these questions, and, of course, I found it in bablaw's blog post yesterday .
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It is proved that on May 25, 2009, on the Gagarin Street in Cheboksary, in a summer cafe, the bartender Pushkarev listened to the “Love radio” radio program from 11 am to one o'clock without concluding an agreement with the Equal Phonographic Alliance (certainly in writing!) on public reproduction of phonograms.

A couple of months later (July 20, 2009), the Kalininsky District Court appointed a thirty-thousand fine in this case and ruled, in addition, to select the AIWA tape recorder, in which the bartender Pushkareva listened to the radio. (The tape recorder, by the way, was not her own, but belonged to the chief accountant of the summer cafe.)

You can view digital JPEG copies of this court decision on your own: page one , page two , page three .