Internet companies are asked to delay anti-pirate amendments

The largest Russian Internet companies Mail.ru Group, VKontakte and Rambler & Co, as well as the Russian Association of Electronic Communications (RAEK), turned to the State Duma chairman Sergei Naryshkin with a request to postpone the deadline for adopting anti-pirate amendments to “minimize negative effects from the law”.

“We ask you to postpone the consideration of amendments to the anti -pirate law for additional consultations and the provision of the time industry to prepare for the potential adoption of the bill,” the letter says.

According to Kommersant , the document was signed by the director of RAEK Sergey Plogutarenko, the executive director of VKontakte Dmitry Sergeev, the head of the legal service of Mail.ru Group Anton Malginov and the director of external communications Rambler & CO Matvey Alekseev.

The consideration of the State Duma of the Anti -Pirate bill in the second reading is scheduled for July 4. Amendments expand the application of the so -called “anti -Pirate law” - Federal Law No. 187 of July 2, 2013, which entered into force on August 1, 2013.

This law is proposed to the court at the request of the copyright holder to block access to sites where cinema and television films are illegally placed. Amendments to this law are offered to block sites with illegally placed audiovisual works, phonograms, literary works, direct television radns, as well as with software.

On Wednesday, July 2, the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications recommended not to disseminate the anti -pirate law in the photograph. The third reading of the anti -pirate bill will be held in the fall.

According to the Internet industry, deputies need to give her the opportunity to negotiate with copyright holders, as well as look for “commercial models of cooperation” with them.

“In the case of the adoption of the bill and its entry into force in a short time, there are serious fears that the industry will not have time to take the necessary measures to comply with new norms and minimize negative effects from the law,” the letter says.