News date: 14 March 2025
Ilyashev & Partners Law Firm is a legal adviser to an international agency specialising in digital content protection against unauthorized access to digital media on the Internet in Ukraine.
The international agency represents many intellectual property rights holders around the world, mainly film and cartoon producers, and, using monitoring technologies, is able to detect digital and IPTV piracy on the Internet.
The agency found out that there are several websites on the Internet broadcasting digital content without rights holders’ consent and which are placed on hosting platforms in Ukraine. Therefore, the agency sought legal advice from Ilyashev & Partners to stop copyright infringement.
To protect the client’s interests, Ilyashev & Partners’ team conducted its own research and identified the companies, in particular in Ukraine and the Czech Republic, that own the hosting of websites with unauthorized live TV broadcasting, as well as their respective servers’ location.
Ilyashev & Partners’ attorneys provided legal assistance to the international agency in negotiations with the hosting provider. This resulted in the removal of pirated content from the websites.
Ilyashev & Partners continues to provide legal support in combating copyright infringement and cooperates with international agency to counteract intellectual property theft & piracy in Ukraine.
Andriy Lytvyn, the Head of Kharkiv Office, led Ilyashev & Partners’ Intellectual Property team on this case.