' Classmates ' are being sued for a book

The company ' Classmates ', which owns the social network odnoklassniki. ru, filed a claim of copyright protection for publishers ' AST '. The owners of the resource demand compensation from the publisher at 200 rubles per issued ' AST ' Thriller ' Classmates ', reports Kommersant.

The owner of ' classmates ' Albert Popkov, told the publication that the book found by chance. In the cover design used elements of corporate identity social network, say in ' Classmates '.

' Design a book cover copies the style of our firm, in addition, a link to odnoklassniki. ru is contained in the output. We believe that publishing such misleading our customers, giving them what we had to do with the writing or the production of this book ' - said Albert Popkov ' Kommersant '. In addition, he said, the company appealed to the publisher with a proposal to resolve the situation peacefully - to pay compensation or to withdraw copies from sale and, not finding understanding, decided to go to court.

Thriller, which is actually called ' OdnoklaSSniki ', written by Andrew Dyshevym and sold on the ' Ozone '. The color scheme, which made ​​the cover, really like is used on the site. However, we can not say that we are talking about copying. According to the director of Cyril Gotovtseva Maniaco studio logo redone quite cleverly, so the ' AST ' more likely to win the case. The lawyer Natalya Barshchevskaya contrast, certain of victory ' Classmates ' and cites as evidence of two of the four law ...

It is noteworthy that about a month ago on the forum ' YurKluba ' began discussed a similar issue: when you make a book cover 'How to kill Spartak -2' logo designer publisher has used a football club 'Spartacus'.

At the same forum on ' Classmates ' was raised an interesting idea. ' What is the general attitude toward copyright infringement is that the ' design of the cover of the book is really misleading and suggests that the social network was related to the writing of the book or is a media sponsor '?.
No ...

Recall that EKSMO used the theme of ' classmates ' and the promotion of a network detective Tatyana Garmash - Roffe. In a specially created blog named ' Odnoklassnichki ' published memoirs, the author is accused classmates of the elite schools is that they put him in prison, and promised them revenge. And then the blogger even accused the writer of stealing his story. Later it turned out that it was the idea itself detektivschitsy.

Themselves as ' Classmates ' advertising is not needed - they are already well advertised, Dmitry Medvedev. And attendance has already surpassed the resource ' Rambler '.