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Combating against Copyright Infringement & Fighting Web Site Content Theft in Ukraine Dmytro Gadomsky Senior assosiate 02 December 2010 г. Presented at Legal Café within UDIVI.NET

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Combating against Copyright Infringement & Fighting Web Site Content Theftin Ukraine

Dmytro GadomskySenior assosiate

02 December 2010 г.Presented at Legal Café within UDIVI.NET

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Content

Web content is the textual, visual or aural content that is encountered as part of the user experience on websites. It may include, among other things:

text, images, sounds,videos and animations

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What is being copied most frequently

TextsPictures

Music

Video

Animation

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Copying = Theft?

Is it a theft?

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Preserve of Combat

vs. С

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How to preserve

Ask not to copy

Be smart

Use technical features

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How to combat

СAsk to remove

Persuasively ask to remove

Send complaint to the registrar, host service provider

File a lawsuit

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Legal action

Evidence?

Defendant?

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Legal action –who is your defendant? (1)

Whois

Request to domain administrator

Request to host service provider

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Legal action – who is your defendant? (2)

Domain ID:D29605301-LRMSDomain Name:MYHOW.INFOCreated On:07-Sep-2009 22:17:33 UTCLast Updated On:07-Sep-2009 22:17:36 UTCExpiration Date:07-Sep-2010 22:17:33 UTCSponsoring Registrar:GoDaddy.com Inc. (R171-LRMS)Status:CLIENT DELETE PROHIBITEDStatus:CLIENT RENEW PROHIBITEDStatus:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITEDStatus:CLIENT UPDATE PROHIBITEDStatus:TRANSFER PROHIBITEDRegistrant ID:CR13666135Registrant Name:Registration PrivateRegistrant Organization:Domains by Proxy, Inc.

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Legal action – evidence?

Authorship

Fact of infringement

Fact of infringement

Fact of infringementFact of infringement

Fact of infringement

Authorship

Authorship

AuthorshipAuthorshipAuthorship

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Legal action (Ukrainian practice)

12 mln.10 ths.

There is almost no appropriate court practice in Ukraine with respect to combating copyright infringement in the Internet

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Выводы

Not complicated

Not expensive

Not time consuming

Effective

vs. СComplicated

Expensive

Time consuming

Effective

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Who can apply for legal action?

If the amount of infringement is quite large

Possibility to asses amount of damage

Financial resources

Time

IF YOU POSSESS:

or ON PRINCIPAL

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Thank you!

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