The Information Media Association (AMI) has expressed solidarity with the journal ¡HOLA! after having suffered, by means of WhatsApp, “the most important hack within the historical past of the press” on the event of the marriage of Tamara Falcó and Íñigo Onieva.
“HELLO! journal introduced final Saturday that it will print a particular situation on Monday with all the main points of the anticipated hyperlink, for the reason that publication often goes on sale on Wednesdays. But this launch has grow to be the most important piracy motion within the historical past of the press in our nation”, says AMI in a press release collected by Europa Press.
Although, in accordance with what he says, the primary version of the journal has bought out on newsstands, AMI factors out that the particular ¡HOLA! has reached “extra individuals than have purchased the journal” by means of the “large” distribution of the publication, by means of the WhatsApp social community, owned by Meta.
AMI warns that “piracy is against the law in opposition to mental property and carries jail sentences of between six months and 4 years”, along with financial fines and the duty to compensate the injury precipitated.
“Both those that distribute it and those that obtain it”
According to AMI, referring to present laws, they’re committing against the law “each the individuals who obtain the content material from reputable entry sources and distribute it for the primary time, in addition to those that obtain it and ahead it.”
For this cause, from AMI they present their “rejection” of this kind of act that “damages mental property, impacts the sustainability of the publishing business” and places “the work of journalists in peril”.
In addition, AMI requests Meta, the proprietor of WhatsApp, “accountable conduct” and asks it to “instantly cease the illegitimate distribution of editorial content material and put the required means to stop these behaviors from recurring sooner or later.”
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