![]() This case became a precedent in the Russian legal practice which illustrated pressure on an electronic library caused by a copyright violation lawsuit. Moshkow's lawyer was Andrey Mironov from the Artemy Lebedev Studio, while KM's interests were presented by the so-called "National Society for Digital Technologies (NOCIT)". ![]() It was later discovered that only Gevorkian had had real claims against Moshkow. On 1 April 2004, the "KM Online" media company, which is known for forming its own library by copying texts from the other electronic libraries, issued a lawsuit against Maksim Moshkow's Library in the name of Eduard Gevorkian, Marina Alekseyeva (pen-name " Alexandra Marinina"), Vasili Golovachov and Elena Katasonova. Maksim Moshkow's project could be compared to some Wikimedia Foundation projects and is sometimes referred to as Russia's Project Gutenberg. According to Moshkow, his project received $35,000 from that organization in September 2005, which indicates some level of government support for the online publishing of in-copyright works. ![]() The headline on the site Lib.ru says "With support from the Federal Press and Mass Communications Agency". Maksim Moshkow's Library received several Ru-net Awards, including the National Internet Award (2003). The structure of the library includes a section where one can publish his own literary texts ("Samizdat" journal, named after the samizdat of the Soviet era), a project for music publishing ("Music hosting"), a travel notes project ("Foreign countries") and some other sections. This method of acquisition provides the library a broad and efficient augmentability, though sometimes it adversely affects the quality (errors, omissions). Lib.ru, also known as Maksim Moshkow's Library (Russian: библиотека Максима Мошкова, started to operate in November 1994) is the oldest electronic library in the Russian Internet segment.įounded and supported by Maksim Moshkow, it receives contributions mainly from users who send texts they scanned and processed ( OCR, proofreading).
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