“LitRes” will withdraw from the sale of books that may fall under the LGBT propaganda ban

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The liter service will remove from sale books that may be subject to the LGBT propaganda ban, and authors will be advised to rewrite the texts to put them up for sale. it has been said about red blood cell Evgeny Selivanov, head of the content development department of the liter group of companies.

The letters “requested to have their work checked for LGBT propaganda” explained to those sent that both the sales service and the copyright holders were responsible for violating the law.

“If no response is received from the author, we will independently analyze the text and decide on the further sale of the book on the site,” said Selivanov.

According to him, some works are no longer available for purchase. At the same time, he pointed out that there were no clear criteria for those covered by the new law. He said the service had spoken to lawyers and prepared an action plan based on their advice.

December 5 Russian President Vladimir Putin signed Law banning LGBT propaganda. According to the document, the penalty for promoting LGBT relations, expressed in “dissemination of information or public actions”, as well as promoting gender reassignment for Russians, can be up to 100 thousand rubles, for officials – up to 200 thousand rubles, for legal entities up to 1 million rubles. For promoting such relationships on the Internet or in the media, you can get a maximum fine – up to 5 million rubles.

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