Prepare the Internet for penalties. The Ministry of culture declared modifed amendments

The working group at the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications presented to the government the option of completion of the anti-piracy law


The working group at the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications created at the request of the first Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov presented to the government the option of completion of the anti-piracy law. Penalties and full blocking of the sites for violation of the intellectual rights are provided in it. It not the final version, it still will discuss with Internet branch, calm in the government.

The working group under the leadership of Igor Shuvalov developed additions to already adopted "anti-piracy" law protecting cinema products, the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky at a meeting of the Duma council for culture declared on May 27. According to the minister, Sergey Zheleznyak's bill adopted in the first reading in March is taken as a basis. Follows from the structure of amendments described by mister Medinsky that the working group coordinated option of additions, rather rigid in relation to owners of the sites. In particular, executive authorities will have by a court decision the right to block not only content, but also all resource, especially if that is engaged in only piracy activity. Besides blocking, the administrative responsibility for violation of the intellectual rights and penalties has to be entered. Earlier it was talked of sanctions to 300 thousand rubles for citizens, to 600 thousand rubles for officials and to 1 million rubles. for legal entities for "violation of an order of restriction of access".

The working group created at the request of mister Shuvalov at the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications was engaged in synchronization of offers of Ministry of culture and amendments of mister Zheleznyak, taking into account opinion of the Internet companies. At first the term of preparation of offers was limited on May 23, but as reported "Kommersant" at the end of the last week the representative of the first Deputy Prime Minister, work on amendments is continued, in a delay "anything critical is not present". In the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications on May 27 refused comments, but the federal official familiar with a position of the ministry, declared on May 27 "Kommersant" that "Vladimir Rostislavovich (Medinsky. – "Kommersant"), seemingly, hurried" with the statement concerning the bill. He claims that the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications the position of the ministry supervising the working group" sent to the government not a final version of amendments, it while only ". Penalties, according to the interlocutor of "Kommersant", can still not get to the total version of amendments: though the Ministry of Culture lobbies their introduction, sharply against the Ministries of Economic Development and the Internet companies act. And here the resources which are systematically violating copyright have to be really blocked, he confirms. For this purpose the sites are offered to be divided on conscientious and unfair where the economic model is constructed on generation of profit from distribution of piracy content.

In general "the compromise is close", and the project can be finished for acceptance in the second and third reading already until the end of spring session, interlocutors of "Kommersant" in the State Duma claim. However, next "komitetsky" week the meeting of profile committee on information policy on this subject is not planned. Obstacles for completion of the project are not present, the first deputy chairman of committee on information policy Leonid Levin considers. Law-enforcement practice on cinema is already acquired, it was necessary to extend it to other spheres, "the intrigue is only with photos" on which it is more difficult to trace violations, he declared. According to the head of committee on the civil legislation Pavel Krasheninnikov, the main issue in the anti-piracy legislation, including, in a problem of "recurrence" as "the same people" are engaged in violation of copyright.

The last version of amendments did not reach participants of the market, representatives of branch speak. The Ministry of culture considers balanced approach at which interests of millions of Russian users in anything are not put in comparison with interests of lobbyists from among large owners, and most often not Russian, the director of strategic projects of Institute of researches of the Internet Irina Levova argues. In her opinion, amendments enter a presumption of guilt of the user, and Internet platforms will be compelled or to block content on only one suspicion, or to pay penalties. The formulation "to block all resource" it seems very risky, it is so possible to limit the right of citizens for access to information, the director of external communications Rambler&Co Matvei Alekseev believes. Such mechanism opens ample opportunities for abuse, resources can be blocked for one comment of the user, he speaks.



Roman Rozhkov, Maxim Ivanov
Businessman
 No. 90 of 28.05.14