Lutsk Entrepreneur sued the Anti-City group for a million hryvnia

Lutsk entrepreneur Sergei Lapkovskyi sued for more than one million hryvna against the popular Ukrainian group "Antichyla", accusing them The patented utility model number 74516, "The way to adjust the parameters of the musical composition", was apparently used in their compositions.

The authors of the songs of the group Taras Topol, Sergey Vusik and Maxim Sivolap were summoned to court. The musicians reported this on their Facebook page. According to them, this is to prohibit the use of certain tones by the musicians and the rhythm of their songs. The price of the claim is 1,018,692, 64 UAH

" The absurdity of the situation is that … a group of fraudsters managed to obtain a patent for what existed in the world of music during many centuries. It is forbidden for musicians to use certain tones and rhythms in their songs. This will be the first lawsuit of its kind in the world, based on the patent issued by state authorities, not on the invention, but on a theory not supported by evidence. To create a precedent is precisely this ultimate goal of Lapkovsky S.O., and its divisors for an additional enrichment of Ukrainian musicians ", – indicates the report in the group.

In turn, "Antibodies" opened a criminal case against Sergei Lapkovsky. They accuse him of fraud.

"Antibodies" offered to pay a certain amount and the claim would be withdrawn. But we did not do it because it's the base. It's something like that that prohibits you from using certain words in writing texts or certain movements in choreographic productions. It's a kind of savagery. If we do not resist the truth, a precedent may appear and every actor in Ukraine may become the target of an attack. Because all the musicians use, in one way or another, certain sounds to sing songs at a certain pace, "commented the Facebook situation of the band leader Taras Topol

L & # 39, the preparatory hearing opened on the case will take place on 23 January in the district court of Podilsky, Kyiv.The lawyer Yaroslav Kuts will represent the case.

"It's as if we imagined that the artists in their work can more draw horizontal red lines, but only blue, because a person has surprisingly obtained a patent on the red lines, as if it were better perceived at the eye. And now, you have to pay, and then – draw. The absurdity of a purely Ukrainian patent overflows. There is more to work in our country. And we will do it because it concerns all the musicians of the country, "says musician Sergei Vusik.

ZAXID.NET asked Serhiy Lapkovsky why the" Anti "case was concerned, but he replied that he "was not interested in talking about it". "When asked to talk about the essence of his invention, he replied that" to understand it, "one must know the theory of music" . However, later, he promised to comment on the situation a little later.

We asked musicians and music theorists who had no connection to the conflict, asking him to explain his essence. We will definitely come back to this topic.

It is interesting to note that in Ukraine, there is the notion of "patent trolls", which receive official patents for well-known "utility models", subsequently trying to claim royalties from those who use them – for example, fashionable patents. -dog, ballpoint pen, disposable shoe, frying pan and even car number.