{"id":267672,"date":"2015-09-11T17:27:20","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T13:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=267672"},"modified":"2015-09-11T17:27:54","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T13:27:54","slug":"news-outlet-does-not-intend-to-pay-compensation-to-armenian-writer-for-republishing-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2015\/09\/11\/news-outlet-does-not-intend-to-pay-compensation-to-armenian-writer-for-republishing-content.html","title":{"rendered":"News Outlet Does Not Intend to Pay Compensation to Armenian Writer for Republishing Content"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">The Court of General Jurisdiction of Kentron and Nork Marash administrative districts presided over by Judge Karine Petrosyan heard arguments on Friday, September 11 in writer Arpi Voskanyan&#39;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2014\/06\/17\/armenian-writers-lawsuit-against-news-outlet-for-copyright-infringement-could-set-precedent.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">copyright infringement lawsuit<\/span><\/a> against Armenian news outlet 1in.am.&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAt start of the hearing the plaintiff motioned for the hearing to be filmed by media representatives; however Judge Petrosyan denied the motion at 1in.am attorney Levon Sahakyan&#39;s objection.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tArpi Voskanyan claims that without her prior consent, 1in.am republished one of her political riddles that was originally published in the local daily Haykakan Zhamanak. The riddle was accompanied by a photo of Prosperous Armenia Party then leader Gagik Tsarukyan. The site also announced a contest for music to the text in the riddle, promising the winner a prize of $1,500.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe plaintiff is asking for compensation in the symbolic amount of 200,000 AMD (about $415) and to remove the republished piece from the site.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;Of course, that&#39;s not the amount of actual damages I&#39;ve sustained; however, that&#39;s the maximum amount as provided by law,&rdquo; Voskanyan said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tDefense attorney Sahakyan stated the claim should be rejected, especially with regard to the amount of damages. Regardless of the verdict, Sahakyan said, the management of 1in.am is going to remove the publication; however, they do not intend to pay any compensation.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe attorney announced that the publication of the riddle with a certain person&#39;s photo, in this case &ndash; with Gagik Tsarukyan&#39;s, can not mean that the editor is limiting the rights of the readers to give their own interpretation to it. The plaintiff, however, insists that it contradicts the very concept of her riddles.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe RA law &ldquo;On Copyright and Related Rights,&rdquo; Levon Sahakyan added, has been changed since the publication by 1in.am of the riddle; thus, according to him, it cannot have a retrospective effect.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tNote, however, that laws expanding the rights of citizens can be retrospective.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tVerdict in the case will be issued on September 28.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RA law \u201cOn Copyright and Related Rights,\u201d Levon Sahakyan added, has been changed since the publication by 1in.am of the riddle; thus, according to him, it cannot have a retrospective effect&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":267663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[62384,37886,33415,56285,62383],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}