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The culture of the village of Gadyukino, or copyright to failure.

Viktor Shenderovich accuses Daria Dontsova of copyright violations.

Remember how Ostap Suleimanovich Berta Maria Benderbey, among other things, tried (and he sometimes got it) to tear the money for something in common use? So, for example, he sold tickets for a view of ... failure - a Pyatigorsk attraction that belonged to everyone.

Do you think this is a fiction?

Not at all.

And today are people who are trying to earn money in a similar way:

Viktor Shenderovich sued the EXMO Publishing House - for copyright violations, he requires 350,000 rubles, estimates his personal moral damage at 30,000 rubles.

The fact is that in the title of her book “Emperor of the village of Gadyukino”, published in the publishing house “Eksmo”, Daria Dontsova used the phrase “Village Gadyukino”, which, as Viktor Shenderovich claims, was invented by him - which means he, we quote the text of the lawsuit “... have the right to use it or allow us to use it ...”.

In the second volume of the collected works of P. Zasodimsky (Vologodin), which is called “steppe secrets”, on the 45th page, there is such a text:

And let these lines be written in 1895 - however, speaking the legal language, there is a precedent. By the way, Mr. Vologodin in his two -volume, more than a hundred years before the miniature “and briefly about the weather”, also used this phrase in a humorous, ironic context. There are apparently eternal values.

Another thing is important. Even if the obvious is accepted - from the part of Daria Dontsova, there was no copyright encroachment, the plaintiff will not be in vault.

This incident has already been written and still written. They are already discussing and will still speak.

Who benefits from such a publicity - the largest Russian publishing house? Or is the most published in Russia (data from the Book Chamber of Russia for 2010) to the author?

And, by the way, everyone is engaged in what he gets best. Someone writes books, someone-claims.

“... Gadyukinsky peasants launched at different scams. These scammers, however, sometimes returned from the pre -war even more poorer and unhappy than the former. ”

"Stepstine Secrets"

P. Zasodimsky, second volume of works

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As they say: the end of the quote ...

I was not going to enter the public space with this story - both me and the country have more important reasons.

I did not run to promote this story in the Bel, sending an offensive nonsense to the opponent in the trial in the media. Not me, but the Eksmo Publishing House chose the genre of scandal.

Well, publicly so publicly ...

If you, dear readers, do not be too lazy to dial in Yandex "Village Gadyukino", thousands of mention of this phrase will fall on you with a pleasant (for me) way.

A smaller part of the links will send you to my 1989 miniature - either to the notes of Gennady Khazanov, who performed it at thousands of concerts and on the air of Channel One. A more frequent case is links that do not connect the “Gadyukino village” with any name in general, but use it in folklore quality (flattering case for the author).

"Village of Gadyukino" - a synonym for a beggar, metaphysical, divorced from the world of Russia for more than twenty years ...

It is in this capacity that the “village” appears in a certain number of computer games - “Sherlock Holmes” goes into it, “Petka and Vasily Ivanovich” are fighting in it ... This name is a site dedicated to fishing ... Well, to health.

The degree of penetration of the “village of Gadyukino” for the author’s brains into the brains of contemporaries briefly is fixed by the heroine of the novel by Ms. Ustinova “Personal Angel”: “And in the village of Gadyukino-rains,” Katerina thought, “it must have been attached to some kind of stupidity ...”

Well, stupidity is not stupidity, but - attached!

And she was attached not at all due to the fault of Pavel Zasodimsky: with the "village of Gadyukino", not a single search engine does not connect him at all. I did not know about this amazing coincidence, which is no wonder: “Steppe Secrets” were published for the last time in 1895 ...

As they say, I did not find.

I believe that at one time I will have the opportunity to surprise the Narodnik Zasodimsky with our roll call and at the same time tell him about the collective farm fate of the village of Gadyukino ...

But - back to our rams.

Alas, the very name of the writer today is known only to rare experts in Russian literature, and that maybe thanks to the "life of Klima Samghin", where Zasosimsky is mentioned twice ...

And of course, it’s not at all to a line from the forgotten story of the late Pavel Vladimirovich sent readers the bright cover of the novel by the now resiliented Agrippina Arkadyevna.

Hundreds of thousands of buyers of Roman Dontsova often watch TV and rarely sit in the archives; The brand promoted by Khazanov was designed to increase the circulation, which he did. All this is clear as God's day.

Let the court understand the legal side of the case.

The ethical side is obvious.

And it is about this ethical side of the case-several grateful words to the exmo publishing house and personally the deputy director of the publishing house, Mr. Rubis, who at the end of January led the guilty intelligent negotiations with me about the global and licensed agreement (to be able to realize the multi-ton and counterfeit, according to our general understanding of Dontsova), and one-man) He turned into an arrogant boor when he accidentally learned about the existence of the writer Zasodimsky.

You gave me a marvelous psychological study - thanks, it will come in handy.

You upset me first, and now - made me laugh.