The Ukrainian poetess Lina Kostenko banned the holding of two concerts planned for August " The reason was, according to her, rude disrespect for copyright and violation of previously reached agreements.
The event was supposed to take place on August 11 in two shows - at 16:30 and 19:30, and was already actively advertised. According to Chitomo, tickets for an event dedicated to Lina Kostenko’s poetry were freely sold, and a significant part of them was bought out by the audience. The organizer was the concert agency atmosphere. After the poetess’s statement, the agency decided not to cancel the evening completely, but changed the name and content of the program. The new announcement - "
In an appeal published on August 8, Kostenko explained that Lviv concerts were announced and sold without her knowledge, as well as without a written permission to public performance of her poetry. The poetess recalled that a similar event took place on June 30, 2025 in Kyiv in the October Palace. Then, despite the fact that the approval occurred in the preparation process, the organizers fulfilled two key conditions:.
According to Kostenko, not one of these conditions was met in the preparation of Lviv concerts. This was the reason for the ban. She also used this opportunity to pay attention to other cases when her works were used without consent, in particular in the play “KO: LINA” DSP theater community, which she also officially forbade.
" In addition to the responsibility of compliance with strict legal norms of copyright, in the artistic world we must all be in the space that I call the “ethical security zone,” the poetess said, emphasizing that it is always open to creative cooperation, subject to copyright and respect for ethical standards.
The ATMOSPhere Concert Agency in the commentary of the Media Gordon expressed surprise and stated that it was not the first time working with the works of Lina Kostenko. According to them, each time they reported such events through the daughter of the poetess, Oksana Pakhlevskaya, and received oral consent. Before that, no comments or claims from Kostenko or her representatives were received.
The organizers said that this time also verbally reported the upcoming concert and first received approval. When an official letter came with a request to cancel the event due to the "
As a result, Atmosphere decided to change the concert program, removing all the works of Lina Kostenko to avoid conflict.
" It is a pity that due to its wide voicing in the media space with displaced accents and inaccurate information, we incur moral and reference losses and humiliation of honor and dignity. We apologize to Lina Kostenko exclusively for the fact that due to the reluctance of representatives of the poetess to coordinate all the conditions for the implementation of the project, she had false ideas about our virtue and decency, ”the agency said in the response of the agency.