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On Thursday, February 27, Cyber Police searched the offices of the advertising agencies MGID and Adwise. Commenting on the search that took place to ThePage CEO of MGID Sergey Denisenko said: “If we are accused of having our codes posted on the pirated sites, it is not a crime – neither criminal nor administrative. There are certain rules and laws under which advertising platforms cannot be held responsible for claiming to the owners of the copyright sites, which is illogical. If a blogger, BBC or CNN uses any video or…

Every year content thieves become less localized — criminals are adapting and implementing complex schemes that make them inaccessible to the rights holders and police of the country to which they broadcast content. This is due to the jurisdiction of another country. Such a “scheme” requires international cooperation and teamwork to be overcome. The experience of key players in the fight against piracy confirms this. “We are successfully fighting illegal websites hosted in Ukraine,” says Kateryna Fedorova, head of Clear Sky Initiative, “But if a website that steals our members’…

On September 17, in the framework of Kyiv Media Week 2019, the conference “Fighting piracy in Ukraine: 5 “what for” and the results of the fight against content theft” was held. Why does the copyright holder need this? — the industry responded to that: StarLightMedia, Star Media and Global Images Ukraine. At first, speakers agreed that copyright protection was vital for business. “I do not understand how the copyright holder may not want to fight piracy! It is economically viable, and this is the future. If we don’t defend our…

The problem of illegal content distribution is caused by the old habit of Ukrainians not to pay. There is nothing simpler than to open the first link of any search engine to watch a new series, listen to a music hit or find the computer program you need to work with. At the same time, some users neglect elementary rules of checking the legality of services, being confident that they consume legal content, because they pay for the Internet, and they transfer funds to fraudsters. “Piracy” of movies, music, books…

The illegal use of the audiovisual content and the protection of intellectual property rights are issues faced by most copyright holders. But movies, music, books are the same goods, like new tires for a car, a wheat bread or a package of milk. So why do we pay in the supermarket, and do not consider it necessary when using audiovisual content? Maybe Ukraine should already go for a creative economy. Creating of your own intellectual property product, such as movies, computer programs, books or series, is creating thousands of highly…

Seven officials within MEDT were appointed government inspectors in charge of intellectual property issues pursuant to a relevant order dated 27 March 2019. The names there listed were as below: Valery Zhaldak Director, Intellectual Property Department, Bohdan Paduchak, Deputy Director of the Department, Oleksiy Ardanov, Viacheslav Gavrylchyk, Inna Dmytrenko, Heorhiy Kanunikov, and Oksana Yarmolenko. Thus the long awaited intellectual property protection mechanism for ua-net stipulated in the Law of Ukraine “On Film Making Support by State in Ukraine” would at last become operative. Whereas the said Law passed as far…