FEDERAL LAW  
NO. 364-FZ OF NOVEMBER 24, 2014  
ON THE INTRODUCTION OF AMENDMENTS INTO THE FEDERAL LAW ON 
INFORMATION, ON INFORMATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES AND ON PROTECTING 
INFORMATION AND INTO THE CIVIL PROCEDURE CODE OF THE RUSSIAN 
FEDERATION  
  
Passed by the State Duma on November 14,  2014  
Approved by the Federation Council on November 19, 2014  
  
Article 1  
To introduce the following amendments into Federal Law  No. 149 -FZ of July 27, 
2006 on Information, on Informational Technology and on Protecting Information 
(Sobraniye Zakonodatelst va Rossiiskoy Federatsii, 2006, No.  31, item  3448; 2010, 
No. 31, item  4196; 2011, No.  15, item  2038; No.  30, item  4600; 2012, No.  31, item  4328; 
2013, No.  14, item  1658; No.  23, item  2870; No.  27, item  3479; No.  52, item  6961, 6963; 
2014, No.  19, item  2302 ; No.  30, items  4223, 4243):  
1) Part 2 of Article 10  shall be extended by a sentence of this content: "The holder 
of an Internet site is obliged to put onto the site he owns information on his designation, 
on the place of his location and on his address as  well as on the e -mail address for 
sending an application indicated in Article 15.7 of this Federal Law and also has the right 
to envisage the possibility of sending this application by way of filling out electronic form 
on the site on the Internet.";  
2) in Article 15.2 : 
a) the title shall be presented in the following wording:  
  
"Article 15.2.  Procedure for Restricting Access to Information Spread with a Violation of 
the Copyrights and (or) of the Adjacent Rights";  
  
b) in Part 1  the words "of films as wel l as of cinema films and of telefilms" shall be 
replaced by the words "of the objects of the copyright and (or) of the adjacent rights 
(except for the works of photography and the works created by methods similar to 
photography) spread in such networks" th e word "films" shall be replaced by the word 
"objects";  
c) in Part 2 : 
- in Item 1  the words "the films including cinema films and telefilms" shall be 
replaced by the words "the objects of the copyright and (or) of the adjacent rights (except 
for the works of photography and the works created by methods similar to photography)";  
- in Item 2  the words "to the films including cinema films and telefilms" shall be 
replaced by the words "the objects of the copyright and (or) of the adjacent rights (except 
for the  works of photography and the works created by methods similar to photography) 
spread in the information and telecommunication networks including on the Internet," the 
words "information containing films including cinema films and telefilms" shall be repla ced 
by the words "information containing the objects of the copyright and (or) of the adjacent 
rights (except for the works of photography and the works created by methods similar to photography)" and the words "to removing such information" shall be repla ced by the 
words "to restricting access to such information";  
d) in Part 3  the words "to remove the unlawfully placed information and (or) to take 
measures for restricting access to it" shall be replaced by the words "to restrict access to 
the unlawfully p laced information";  
e) Part 4  shall be edited as follows:  
"4. In the course of one working day as from the moment of receiving from the 
provider of the hosting or from a different person pointed out in Item 1 of Part 2 of this 
Article a notification on the  necessity to restrict access to the unlawfully placed 
information the owner of the information resource is obliged to remove the unlawfully 
placed information or to take measures for restricting access to it. In the case of refusal 
or of inaction on the p art of the informational resource owner the provider of the hosting 
or a different person indicated in Item 1 of Part 2 of this Article is obliged to restrict 
access to the corresponding informational resource not later than after the expiry of three 
worki ng days as from the moment of receiving the notification mentioned in Item 2 of Part 
2 of this Article.";  
f) in Part 5  the words "the films including cinema films and telefilms" shall be 
replaced by the words "the objects of the copyrights and (or) of the adjacent rights 
(except for the works of photography and the works created by methods similar to 
photography)";  
g) in Part 6  the words "the films including cinema films and telefilms" shall be 
replaced by the words "the objects of the copyright and (or) of  the adjacent rights (except 
for the works of photography and the works created by methods similar to photography) 
disseminated in the information and telecommunication networks including on the 
Internet," shall be added a sentence of this content: "Within  one working day as from the 
day of receiving from the above -said federal executive power body a notification on the 
cancellation of measures for restricting access to the informational resource the provider 
of the hosting is obliged to inform to this effe ct the owner of the informational resource 
and to notify him on the possibility of lifting off the restriction of the access.";  
h) Part 7  shall be presented in the following wording:  
"7. Within 24 hours as from the moment of receiving via the interaction s ystem 
information on the informational resource containing the objects of the copyright and (or) 
of the adjacent rights (except for the works of photography and the works created by 
methods similar to photography) disseminated in the information and teleco mmunication 
networks including on the Internet or information necessary for receiving them with the 
use of the information and telecommunication networks which are used without 
permission of the right -holder or without any other lawful ground, the communic ation 
operator rendering services for granting access to the Internet is obliged to restrict 
access to the unlawfully placed information in conformity with the court act which.has 
come into legal force. If the communication operator has no technical possib ility for 
restricting access to the unlawfully placed information, he is obliged to restrict access to 
such informational resource.";  
3) Articles 15.6 and 15.7 of the following content shall be added:  
  
"Article 15.6.  Procedure for Restricting Access to th e Internet Sites on Which Was 
Repeatedly and Unjustifiably Placed Information Containing Objects of the Copyright and (or) of the Adjacent Rights or Information Necessary for Receiving Them with the Use of 
Information and Telecommunication Systems Includin g the Internet  
1. Within 24 hours as from the moment of arrival of the corresponding decision of 
the Moscow City Court which has come into legal force via the interaction system at the 
address of the federal executive power body fulfilling the functions of  control and 
supervision in the area of mass media, mass communications and informational 
technologies and communication the said body shall send to the communication 
operators via the interaction system the demand for taking measures for the permanent 
restriction of access to the site on the Internet on which was repeatedly and unjustifiably 
placed information containing objects of the copyright and (or) of the adjacent rights or 
information necessary for receiving it with the use of informational -telecomm unication 
networks including the Internet.  
2. Within 24 hours as from the moment of receiving the demand pointed out in Part 
1 of this Article the communication operator rendering services involved in granting 
access to the Internet is obliged to restrict access to the corresponding Internet site. 
Lifting off the restriction imposed on the access to such site on the Internet is 
inadmissible.  
3. Information on the Internet sites, the access to which is restricted on the ground 
of the Decision of the Moscow C ity Court is placed on the official site of the federal 
executive power body fulfilling the functions for control and supervision in the area of 
mass media, mass communications, informational technologies and communication and 
on the Internet.  
  
Article 15 .7. Out-of-Court Measures for Stopping a Violation of the Copyright and of the 
Adjacent Rights in the Information and Telecommunication Networks and on the Internet 
to Be Taken at the Right Holder's Application  
1. If he reveals in the information and telec ommunication networks including on the 
Internet an Internet site on which without his permission or without any other lawful 
ground is placed information containing objects of the copyright and (or) of the adjacent 
rights or information necessary for the r eceipt thereof with the use of the information and 
telecommunication networks including the Internet, the right holder has the right to send 
to the owner of the Internet site an application in writing or in electronic form on the 
violation of the copyright  and of the adjacent rights. The application may be sent by the 
person authorised by the right holder in conformity with the legislation of the Russian 
Federation.  
2. The application shall contain:  
1) information on the right holder or on the person author ised by the right holder (if 
the application is sent by such person) (hereinafter referred to as the applicant):  
a) for a natural person - the surname, first name and patronymic, the passport data 
(the series and number, by whom issued and the date of issu e) and the contact 
information (the telephone and (or) the fax numbers and the e -mail address);  
b) for a legal entity - the designation, the place of location and the address and the 
contact information (the telephone and (or) the fax numbers and the e -mail address);  
2) information on the object of the copyright and (or) of the adjacent rights put on 
the Internet site without permission of the right holder or without any other lawful ground;  
3) indication of the domain name and (or) of the network address o f the site on the 
Internet on which without permission of the right holder or without any other lawful ground is put information containing an object of the copyright and (or) of the adjacent rights or 
information necessary for its receipt with the use of the information and 
telecommunication networks including the Internet;  
4) indication of the right holder's possession of rights to an object of the copyright 
and (or) of the adjacent rights put on the site on the Internet without permission of the 
right ho lder or without any other lawful ground;  
5) indication of an absence of the right holder's permission for the placement of 
information containing an object of the copyright and (or) of the adjacent rights or of 
information necessary for obtaining such with  the use of the information and 
telecommunication networks including the Internet;  
6) the applicant's consent to processing his personal data (for the applicant - a 
natural person).  
3. If the application is filed by the authorised person, to it shall be en closed a copy 
of the document (in writing or in electronic form) confirming his powers.  
4. If the information supplied in the application is not full and if there are 
inaccuracies or errors in it, the Internet site owner has the right to send to the applic ant 
within 24 hours as from the moment of receiving the application a notification with the 
request to specify the presented information. This notification may be sent to the 
applicant only one time.  
5. Within 24 hours as from the moment of receiving the n otification mentioned in 
Part 4 of this Article the applicant shall take measures aimed at the supply of the missing 
information and at eliminating the inaccuracies and errors and shall send the specified 
information to the Internet site owner.  
6. The Inte rnet site owner shall remove the information pointed out in Part 1 of this 
Article within 24 hours as from the moment of receiving the application or the information 
specified by the applicant (if to the latter was sent the notification pointed out in Part  4 of 
this Article).  
7. If the Internet site owner has proofs confirming the justification of putting onto 
the Internet site belonging to him information containing an object of the copyright and 
(or) of the adjacent rights or information necessary for rec eiving such with the use of the 
information and telecommunication networks including the Internet, he has the right not to 
take measures envisaged in Part 6 of this Article and is obliged to send the 
corresponding notification to the applicant with an encl osure of the above -said proofs.  
8. The rules of this Article equally concern the right holder and the licensee who 
has received an exclusive licence for the object of the copyright and (or) of the adjacent 
rights.";  
4) Part 4 of Article 17  after the words "The provider of the hosting" shall be 
extended by the words, ", the communication operator".  
  
Article 2  
To introduce the following amendments into the Civil Procedure Code  of the 
Russian Federation (Sobraniye Zakonodatelstva Rossiiskoy Federatsii, 2002, No. 46, 
item 4532; 2005, No.  30, item  3104; 2006, No.  1, item  8; 2007, No.  41, item  4845; 2008, 
No. 24, item  2798; 2010, No.  18, item  2145; No.  50, item  6611; 2011, No.  49, item  7066; 
2013, No.  27, item  3479; 2014, No.  11, item  1094; No.  23, item  2928):  
1) the third part of Article 26  shall be rendered in this wording:  "3. The Moscow City Court considers as the first instance court the civil cases 
which are connected with protecting the copyright and (or) the adjacent rights except for 
the right to the work s of photography and to the works created by methods similar to 
photography in the information and telecommunication networks including the Internet 
and with respect to which it has taken preliminary provisional measures in conformity with 
Article 144.1 of  this Code. If the Moscow City Court considers the cases the proceedings 
on which were instituted at a plaintiff's claim after the entry into legal force of the decision 
passed by the same court in favour of the same plaintiff on a different case on protec ting 
the copyright and (or) the adjacent rights in the information and telecommunication 
networks including the Internet, the Moscow City Court shall also solve the issue of the 
permanent restriction of access to the Internet site on which was repeatedly a nd 
unjustifiably put information containing the objects of the copyright and (or) of the 
adjacent rights or information necessary for receiving it with the use of the information 
and telecommunication networks including the Internet.";  
2) Item 3.1 of the f irst part of Article 140  shall be presented as edited in this way:  
"3.1. imposition upon the defendant and upon the other persons of the liability to 
perform certain actions concerning the object of the dispute on a violation of the copyright 
and (or) of t he adjacent rights except for the rights to the works of photography and to the 
works created by methods similar to photography in the information and 
telecommunication networks including the Internet;";  
3) in Article 144.1 : 
a) the title shall be edited as  follows:  
  
"Article 144.1.  Preliminary Provisional Measures for Protecting the Copyright and (or) the 
Adjacent Rights in the Information and Telecommunication Networks Including the 
Internet";  
  
b) in the first part  the words "of the exclusive rights to f ilms including cinema films 
and telefilms" shall be replaced by the words "of the copyright and (or) of the adjacent 
rights except for the rights to the works of photography and to the works created by 
methods similar to photography";  
c) in the third part  the words "of the exclusive rights to films including cinema films 
and telefilms" shall be replaced by the words "of the copyright and (or) of the adjacent 
rights except for the rights to the works of photography and to the works created by 
methods similar  to photography";  
d) in the fourth part  the words "of the exclusive rights to films including cinema films 
and telefilms" shall be replaced by the words "of the copyright and (or) of the adjacent 
rights except for the rights to the works of photography and  to the works created by 
methods similar to photography";  
e) in the first paragraph of the fifth part  the words "of the exclusive rights to films 
including cinema films and telefilms" shall be replaced by the words "of the copyright and 
(or) of the adjacen t rights except for the rights to the works of photography and to the 
works created by methods similar to photography";  
f) in the sixth part  the words "of the exclusive rights to films including cinema films 
and telefilms" shall be replaced by the words "o f the copyright and (or) of the adjacent 
rights except for the rights to the works of photography and to the works created by 
methods similar to photography";  g) in the first paragraph of the seventh part  the words "of the exclusive rights to 
films includi ng cinema films and telefilms" shall be replaced by the words "of the 
copyright and (or) of the adjacent rights except for the rights to the works of photography 
and to the works created by methods similar to photography";  
h) in the eighth part  the words " of the exclusive rights to films including cinema 
films and telefilms" shall be replaced by the words "of the copyright and (or) of the 
adjacent rights except for the rights to the works of photography and to the works created 
by methods similar to photogr aphy";  
i) in the ninth part  the words "of the exclusive rights to films including cinema films 
and telefilms" shall be replaced by the words "of the copyright and (or) of the adjacent 
rights except for the rights to the works of photography and to the work s created by 
methods similar to photography";  
4) Item 5 of Article 320.1  shall be presented in the following wording:  
"5) by the appeals instance of the Moscow City Court against the given court's 
decisions on civil cases which are connected with protectin g the copyright and (or) the 
adjacent rights except for the rights to the works of photography and to the works created 
by methods similar to photography" in the information and telecommunication networks 
including the Internet and against which it has tak en preliminary provisional measures in 
conformity with Article 144.1 of this Code.";  
5) the third paragraph of the first part of Article 428  shall be edited as follows:  
"A writ of execution on the ruling on the preliminary provision for protecting the 
copy right and (or) the adjacent rights except for the rights to the works of photography 
and to the works created by methods similar to photography" is issued to the exactor not 
later than on the following day after the day of passing such ruling.";  
6) the third part of Article 429  shall be rendered in this wording:  
"3. On the ground of the ruling on the preliminary provision for protecting the 
copyright and (or) the adjacent rights except for the rights to the works of photography 
and to the works created by m ethods similar to photography in the information and 
telecommunication networks including the Internet on which was repeatedly and 
unjustifiably placed information containing the objects of the copyright and (or) of the 
adjacent rights or information neces sary for its receipt with the use of the information and 
telecommunication networks including the Internet, the court shall issue a writ of 
execution to the exactor and shall send at the exactor's petition a writ of execution to the 
federal executive power  body fulfilling functions involved in the exertion of control and 
supervision in the area of the mass communication media, of the mass communications 
and of the informational technologies and communication.".  
  
Article 3  
This Federal Law shall be enforced  on May 1, 2015.  
  
President of the Russian Federation  V. Putin  
  
The Kremlin, Moscow  
November 24, 2014  
No. 364-FZ