The Ministry of Justice, in turn, justified its idea by the inflation

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The largest IT associations - ARPP "Domestic Software", APKIT and NP PPP - sent a joint response to the draft amendments to the article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation on copyright infringement to the Ministry of Justice of Russia.

In the draft law "On Amendments to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation", the Ministry of Justice put forward the idea of ​​easing the thresholds of liability for crimes bulgaria whatsapp resource committed under articles related to copyright infringement. In particular, the ministry proposed raising the threshold of criminal liability from 100 thousand rubles to 500 thousand rubles, and the threshold for an especially large amount - from 1 million rubles to 2 million rubles.

Software developers believe it is important to prevent the Ministry of Justice from sharply increasing the threshold at which copyright infringement is considered a crime, and to increase administrative fines. As noted by industry associations, a disproportionately large increase in the threshold of criminal liability under Part 2 of Article 146 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation will entail significant negative consequences for the national IT industry associated with a sharp reduction in the ability to protect rights to Russian computer programs and electronic databases. In particular, the bill proposed by the authors will leave virtually all Russian developers actively involved in the processes of ensuring national digital sovereignty without legal protection. No more than 3-5% of the most expensive software products will remain under real protection.

accumulated since 2011. However, the associations' experts claim that the cost of comparable and currently supported versions of software products from the largest Russian developers, created before 2011, on average not only did not increase, but was also reduced. The general increase in the cost of software products occurs due to the release of new generations of software products with significantly greater functionality than previous versions. It is obvious that it is the costs of developing and creating new generations that cause the increase in the cost of new generations, which weakly correlates with general inflation indicators. In any case, the data on accumulated inflation of about 100% cited by the authors of the bill cannot in any way justify raising the threshold for criminal liability fivefold (500%). As a compromise, the Associations proposed setting the threshold for criminal liability at 200 thousand rubles.

The review also mentions the advisability of increasing administrative fines for copyright infringement (Article 7.12 of the Code of Administrative Offences) in order to eliminate the gap with the threshold of criminal liability. Currently, the maximum fine for legal entities is 40 thousand rubles.

Representatives of the associations expressed their willingness to join the working group and participate in further discussion and preparation of the bill.