The site invites users to share Mygazines.com magazines

In magazine publishers, already faced with reduced sales of its products and lower revenues, a new threat of digital piracy. In July, a new online resource called Mygazines. com, where users can hang out at the site of the scanned copies of popular paper journals, reports the Associated Press. Thus, visitors are able to free the resource to view high-quality digital images of pages of publications such as People, Men's Health, The Economist, and many others. As of August 15, at Mygazines. com were registered 16,000 users.

According to experts, the site is ' terrible ' violator of the laws on copyright. However, close Mygazines. com under the pretext it is not possible, because they are owned by offshore company. Jeffrey Cunard, an intellectual property company in the Washington Debevoise. According to him, there are whole magazines are laid out without any comment or criticism, so to call it a classic example of fair use can not be legitimate.

In a press release dated July 29, Mygazines, anticipating the beginning of the work was written, that a copy posted by users on the site are no different from magazines, which lay on the tables in the waiting room with a doctor or women's salons. Cunard does not agree with this statement, and declares that the resource makes available copies of paid content, not the actual product. The lawyer also reminded that under the doctrine of first sale, after the purchase of a protected copyright works of the new owner is free to deal with the purchased copy on your own, but can not copy it.

Some publishers are already aware of the existence of Mygazines. com and intend to file lawsuits. And representatives of Time Division Corporation Time Warner, which publishes such magazines as People and Sports Illustrated, said that considering the possible ways to close the resource. The Association of Magazine Publishers of America, which can not go to court because they do not have copyright, supports the efforts of publishers and against the site.

Contact with the Mygazines. com The Associated Press was unable to. The domain name Mygazines. com is registered to John Smith, the company Salveo, which is based in Valley City on the Caribbean island of Anguilla. From contact information is not any good, most likely, the site registered to a fictitious person. It is not clear on what the resource makes money - it does not have advertising, and free user registration.

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