Major content providers have agreed on the joint protection of their copyright

A number of leading Russian mass media - RTR, ' Newspaper. RU ', ID ' Kommersant ',' Interfax ',' RIA Novosti 'and ' Sports. ru '- agreed on the joint protection of copyright in materials created by them. This, according to RIA Novosti, said the agreement signed by the heads of companies. The contract is open, allowing other Russian media to join him.

Measures to protect the rights of copyright will be extended to acceding to the treaty created the media text, photos, audio, video, flash material, pictures and other content. In this case, to prevent massive violations of copyrights of publishers on the Internet, during 2008-2009, is supposed to develop industry-wide principles of the approach to the use of materials on the network, as well as create a legal and technological tools for monitoring violations of industry rules and regulations of the Russian legislation.

Commenting on the agreement, the chief editor of ... RU ' Mikhail Mikhailin said that the need for such a contract is due to the lack of media rules of citation to each other. ' All sorts of publications, which are so-called ' kopipasterami ', published news of the structures that produce content, according to the rules they set for themselves. This adversely affects the citation and attendance of the media on their business ' - said Mikhailin. Therefore, he explained, the major content providers on the market Runet 'now will agree among themselves about what rules they will play, that is, on what terms they will offer this content to publications that have content they do not buy '.