13 November 2008

Nokia and FPT Online
Deny Music Copyright Violations

Nokia Vietnam appears to be uninterested in the allegation, saying to VietNamNet that Nokia Vietnam has no comment on the allegation and encourages the two to solve the problem in a friendly way.

On Tuesday, Nokia and FPT said they had not violated the copyright law as claimed by RIAV. Nokia said in a statement on Tuesday that Nokia was seriously considering the association's allegations and was discussing with RIA V to look into the issue.

Nokia explained it does not own FPT Online's website, nor manage digital content there. Thus, it asked FPT to work with the association over this issue," Nokia said.

Nguyen Ngoc Long, chief editor of nhacSo.net and director of communication centre of FPT Online told the Daily that his company had not received any official documents from Ben Thanh and Phuong Nam Film who are members of RIAV. Thus, he declined to comment.

"However, it needs to emphasize that FPT Online doesn't establish a music website for Nokia. The website http://mp3.nhacso.net/nokia is owned by FPT Online to provide music download service and our clients can purchase FPT cards to download music.

Nokia only implemented a promotion programme by buying FPT Online's cards and gifts to Nokia customers. It is a normal promotion campaign," Long noted.