As of now, Russia’s powerful technology companies such as Yandex, Mail.ru Group and the Ramber have signed the landmark Anti-Piracy Database Agreement to get rid of different copyright infringement issues.
Here, the agreement was signed in Moscow keeping the Movie and TV companies enacted.
So, what’s there in the agreement and the actual story? Well, let’s move ahead and discover some more insights on the same.
The story of the Landmark Anti-Piracy Database Agreement
First of the agreement will embark the making of a central database which will give information for the contents to be deleted.
Moving back in August, the Russian search grant Yandex found themselves in the tight spot. Here, the matter happened after they declined to remove pirate links.
Here, the serious was quite serious because Yandex is facing blockage all over the country. In addition, even the Internet Service Providers are blocking Yandex to some considerable extent.
But, for the sake, Yandex complied with the demands and avoided the disaster. But, for moving forward something has to be done at the very earliest.
Further, the local telecoms such as watchdog & defacto said that the answer can be found in a voluntary agreement between country’s tech companies and copyright holders.
Hence, the meeting took place on September 19 between the Roscomnadzor parties on this headquarter.
While the discussions have gone underway, things appear to move on a quite faster pace. Earlier this week, the deputy of Roscomnadzor said the Landmark Anti-piracy agreement between the right holders and search engines to,”combat proliferation of pirated content would be signed in Moscow”.
Hence, the event took place with Channel one, National media group, Gazprom-Media, Rambler group, the Internet Video Association, Yandex, Rambler Group, vKontakte, and the RuTube.
However, Google didn’t instantly come in the agreement because it has its compliances with the DMCA.
Hence, after every few minutes, operators search platforms will search the database for updating the information.
Further, within six hours, copyright infringement URL’s are said to be removed from the search results in Russia.
In addition, different companies such as Yandex, video, and RuTube will have to eliminate pirated content from their platforms.
A Word of Mouth by Alexander Zharov
“As a result of quite a lot of work, we have arrived at a historic moment when both content producers and content distributors unite their efforts in the fight against piracy,” Zharov said. As a result of this work, the [Russian Internet] will become the cleanest space for piracy in the world.”
However, different signature shows that the memorandum lines between copyright holders and Internet services providers can come at a standstill.
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Final Word of Mouth: Story of the Landmark Anti-Piracy Database Agreement
As of now, the landmark anti-piracy agreement is a welcome achievement for different copyright holders. Still, some of the companies will miss out such as the Book Publishers who had no contact with the video & tech companies.
Finally, what the current agreement will bring for the users. And copyright holders of Russia, waiting stands as the sole answer.
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