"Fotolur's victory against 1in.am in court is a precedent." Our photos are used a lot, know that the photos of almost all photographers are mostly used illegally," said Melik Baghdasaryan, director of "Fotolur" agency, at the "Armenpress" press club.
let's mention that the court obliged "Skizb Media Center" to stop the printing, distribution and use of photographic works that are the object of copyright of "Fotolur" LLC news agency in the sense of the "Copyright and related rights" law.
The court decided to expropriate AMD 2,400,000 from "Skizb Media Center" SP in favor of "Fotolur" LLC news agency, as double the amount of royalties. Melik Baghdasaryan said that the copyrights of their photos are violated everywhere, they are used illegally, verbal warnings are also they do not benefit.
"I'm going to continue these legal proceedings quite consistently, no matter how difficult it may be.
Here they do not accept that the photo has value, copyright exists, it is created by people. They claim that they took it from the Internet, but it was not published for taking and using," said the head of the agency.
Lawyer Ani Davtyan emphasized that if the photo is on the Internet, it does not mean that the photo has no copyright or that it is not necessary to obtain a permission to use it.
