MÜYAP: No Intention to Block Access to Last FM and MySpace

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    Date: 
    28 September 2009

    Bianet talked to Bülent Forta, chairman of the Association of Interconnected Ownership Right Phonogram Producers (MÜYAP) about blocking access to MySpace and Last FM, two of the world's largest websites for socializing and music sharing. Forta explained: "The complaint was made by us. Intellectual property rights are stolen. We are fighting for our right".

    "The ownership rights of the contents published in these websites belong to us. People are using them for free day by day. We applied for such a way in order to protect the rights of the people who gave their authorization to MÜYAP for this. Our aim was not to ban access to these sites. This is a problem of the Turkish law since there is no other kind of application".