Gevorkyan v. Moshkov

Indeed, many authors and publishing houses considered placements of their works in the Moshkov library beneficial to the sales of the paper copies of the books.

[1] The Kirill i Mefody company (named after Cyril and Methodius) started in 1995 was the creator of the Large KM Encyclopedia and other multimedia products.

Unlike Moshkov, Kirill i Mefody library offered the copyright holders up to 20% of its revenue from the downloads of e-books from paying users.

The revenue from the paid downloads was low, since most of the e-books offered by Kirill i Mefody for fee-paying users were freely available on the sites like the Moshkov library.

The movements of KM were supported by the National Society for Digital Technologies (Национальное общество по цифровым технологиям (НОЦИТ)), a Russian organization for the promotion copyright in computer-related areas.

The KM took an alternative route and filed applications on behalf of the authors: Alexandra Marinina, Vasili Golovachov, Eduard Gevorkyan and Elena Kasatonova.