Google to study Russia’s offers on search filter, anti-piracy memo

MOSCOW, Nov 14 (PRIME) -- Google’s corporate center in California will study mechanisms for resolving the situation with the company’s violation of the Russian law requiring a screening of search results from banned information, the communications service said Wednesday after a meeting with Google.

“The communications service’s Deputy Director Vadim Subbotin met with Google’s representative Doron Avni. One of the key points of the talks was a discussion of the situation around the company’s violation of the Russian law on filtering of Google search results from the information banned in Russia,” the watchdog said.

Avni will hand over the proposed mechanisms to the company’s center.

“The communications service also offered Google to join the anti-piracy memorandum, which was signed on November 1, 2018 by Russia’s biggest media holdings and Internet companies. The memorandum stipulates deletion of links to illegal content from search results upon a request of copyright holders and corresponds to the mechanisms exploited by Google,” the service said.

Valid through September 1, 2019, the memorandum of cooperation was sealed on November 1 by 12 companies, comprising such copyright holders as television broadcasters Channel One, VGTRK, and CTC Media, as well as Gazprom-Media Holding, and the National Media Group. The Internet services were presented by Yandex, Mail.Ru Group, Rambler Internet Holding, and cinematographic resource KinoPoisk, among others.

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