Yandex and Google will get only 5 days to remove banned links.

At a meeting with copyright holders in the Ministry of Communications, the maximum period was set during which search engines must remove links to prohibited content: five days . To do this, search engines will create a special form on their sites, where rights holders will enter removal requests, indicating the appropriate number of the Moscow City Court decision.

This is the norm that will be introduced into the bill, which was developed by Roskomnadzor in cooperation with the right holders on the model of the American DMCA, and is now being finalized by the Ministry of Communications before public discussion.

As practice shows, public discussion is usually only a formality. On the other hand, the claim has already been expressed by Yandex, so the bill can be quite slowed down. At the very least, it makes sense to edit the obvious flaws that Yandex is talking about.

“The draft law does not specify either the requirements for the appeal of the right holder to the search engine operator, or the procedure for the operator to fulfill the search system of the requirements of the right holder,” the company stated in its recall.

In addition, the current version of the bill does not spell out actions in which the search engine can return the remote domain to the issue, because the site owner could fulfill the requirements of the court, which means that he is no longer the violator.

The draft law does not state at all that it is a question of court decisions on anti-piracy law.

In addition, Yandex asks to transfer responsibility from it to Roskomnadzor in terms of checking the authenticity of court documents sent by the right owner.

“Five days to remove sites from search results will hit pirated sites very badly, since it will be unprofitable for them to spend money on promotion in the search engine and eventually have to find a new job,” the head of the defense association said in an interview with Izvestia. copyright on the Internet Maxim Ryabyko.