The first channel was fined 600 thousand for copyright infringement on “the Voice”

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Scandals show “the Voice” appear one after another! So, the first member of the first season of the contest among children Irakli Intskirveli told that he had to spend almost 30 thousand rubles at the stage of filing of the application, and otherwise participate in the contest you can just forget. Now the show “the Voice” face a fine for copyright infringement.

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Sue the First channel was filed by the company “National music publishing”. She found that in December 2015 the final show of “the Voice” have been used illegally text of the legendary song “Dark night”. Recall that it was 24-year-old Era of Cannes, competed in the team Basta.

First “National music publishing” has addressed in Arbitration court of Moscow and demanded one million rubles from the accused party. The court then rejected the plaintiff, explaining that “the defendant had correctly pointed out that there were only other performance of live, aurally different from the original,” — said in the decision.

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Not wanting to retreat, the plaintiff appealed to the Ninth arbitration court of appeal, which partially upheld his claim and recovered from the first channel 600 thousand rubles as compensation. The court explained that the use of the lyrics of the song “Dark night” in a new arrangement — a violation of the rights of the company “National music publishing”.

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