In a bizarre turn of events, a Russian lower house MP Aleksey Mitrofanov has suggested that the new Anti-Piracy Bill in Russia be amended to only protected movies and TV shows. The reasoning behind Mitrofanov’s argument is that the movies and TV shows are expensive to produce and thus must be protected, music on the other hand is not.
Ostensibly Mitrofanov’s argument seems ridiculous. Why should the Government of any country deny content creators of one median the same justice that the content creators of another median can enjoy purely on the basis of which would be beneficial to the economy?
However, from what I can gather from this article from RT, Mitrofanov’s argument isn’t that we should completely deny music artists the right to protect their IP because it is less inferior, but because currently it is simply too hard. I suppose the idea behind the amendment is that the Government should first focus its power on stopping/diminishing piracy in movies and tv shows before adding further legislation to combat piracy with music.
I do (kind of) understand the logic behind Mitrofanov’s amendment, (I guess its a loose form of divide and conquer). But I fail to see how the legislation which would be needed to combat the piracy of movies and TV shows would be that much different from the legislation needed to combat the piracy of music.
Source: http://rt.com/politics/music-copyright-bill-anti-piracy-923/
