Azov Films
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Azovfilms.com was the web site of a company based in Canada, which sold films in which boys play the leading roles. The company marketed films from around the world, particularly on topics related to "coming-of-age". In addition, videos produced especially for the company bear the Azov label; most have naturist/nudist content.
- Starting in 2012, some US, Canadian, and Spanish customers of Azov Films have been arrested and charged with receipt and possession of Child pornography.
History of the company
The founder of the company began in early 2005 to sell movies on the www.moviebizz.com site, including those listed under the heading Baikal films. The success led him, in May 2005, to rename the site www.baikalfilms.com, area had already recorded towards the end of the year 2004. As the producer of the film Baikal series had made an application for registration of trademark for Baikal Films in the United States and the Canada and had not authorized the owner of Azov Films to use, the latter created the site azov.com in October 2006. The name refers to the sea of Azov, adjacent to the Black Sea. Originally, many movies were filmed around the sea of Azov, including Crimea and Lugansk. The "resemblance" with Baikal (another Lake in Russia) also played a role in the choice of the name Azov.
Attempting to save by Azov Films of the trademark in the United States and the Canada PojkART is originally a dispute still unresolved between Azov Films on the one hand, and on the other the old Baikal film producer and the founder of the company of distribution of images of art KiB. Since the 1970s, KiB, via its PojkART brand is active in the field of the book, the images and movies to garconnier subject, and gave in 1998 to Baikal Films an exclusive license for distribution in North America. A more serious criticism is that Azov Films sells not only films of Baikal Films, Europa Sun and Award Films (all three being originally distributed by Baikal Films) and PojkART, but sold and still sells pirated copies. The Baikal Films producer, according to his own account, in has made the observation in doing the test to buy his own films on AzovFilms.
Azov think have the right because as a former collaborator of Baikal in 2006, he had transferred the rights of all Baikal films to the firm that is now called AzovFilms. (the legality of this process is still contentious.) It is certain that PojkART films are part of AzovFilms.com offer branded Azov, partly with modified titles. They are also downloadable. The question of the violation of copyright is not clarified. It is theoretically possible that KiB has not acquired exclusive rights to these movies and that AzovFilms be sent directly to producers. According to AzovFilms, the firm is today ' hui in hands Russians, and only the distribution takes place in the United States and the Canada. Unfortunately, no information available to the public can confirm this.
Since the beginning of the month of May 2011, the AzovFilms site is more accessible. There is an explanation on the site or on the Twitter account of the company. This lack of communication left the free fields in the assumptions on the part of people who do not have access to first-hand information.
