IPTango: collecting societies

Wednesday, 28 July 2010

MEXICO: IMPI realiza visitas de inspección

Gilberto Macias (@gmaciasb) July 28, 2010 No comments:

SOMEXFON nos informa que el IMPI ha realizado diversas visitas de inspección para verificar las autorizaciones correspondientes a la “música grabada” ejecutada comercialmente.

El objetivo que persigue el IMPI con dichas visitas es verificar que los restaurantes y bares, así como otros establecimientos y/o negocios, cuenten con las autorizaciones correspondientes para el uso legal de fonogramas.

En busca del respeto y cumplimiento de los Derechos de Propiedad Intelectual en México a través de la puesta en marcha de una campaña en contra de las violaciones a los derechos de los productores de fonogramas, el IMPI realizó durante el periodo enero-junio del año en curso 105 visitas de inspección y de verificación a establecimientos y negocios en las ciudades de Puebla, Distrito Federal, Monterrey, Querétaro y el Estado de México.

Aquí encontrarán más información sobre las visitas realizadas.

Y aquí se puede consultar el texto del convenio de colaboración IMPI-SOMEXFON.

Friday, 20 March 2009

Argentina: Official Collective Management Organization for Film Directors

Jeremy March 20, 2009 No comments:

On 19 February 2009 the Argentine Film Directors Association (“Directores Argentinos Cinematográficos” or “DAC”) was recognized as the sole official collective management organization for film directors, by presidential Decree 124/2009. The Decree was officially announced by the president of Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, in a fancy event on the same day as her birthday.

DAC is now vested with the power to raise all the royalties due to Argentine and foreign film directors in Argentina and all royalties due to Argentine film directors abroad, based on the provisions of the Intellectual Property Law N° 11.723. The decree also establishes that the DAC will work with the Media Office of the Chief of Staff (Secretaría de Medios de Comunicación de la Jefatura de Gabinete de Ministros) in order to approve, set or modify any royalty rate or any formula to calculate royalties.

Further information on the DAC and Decree 124/2009 can be found here (Spanish only).

Since 2004 the Intellectual Property law has granted film directors a unique intellectual property right over their works, which is shared with the scriptwriter and the producer of the film. This decree is a new step to empower film directors in the exercise of their rights.

Source: note kindly submitted by Celia Lerman (Mitrani, Caballero & Ojam Abogados).

Some IPTango moves

* Listed as one of the "Best blogs on Intellectual and Industrial Property Law". The University of Alicante Intellectual Property & Information Technology Project (UAIPIT).

* One of the only two Latin American blog listed in the "Top 100 Intellectual Property Blogs". Feedspot, as of May 2021.

* Listed as one of the "Top 15 Blogs For An Intellectual Property (IP) Enthusiasts". Buzzfeed.com, January 2017.

* Listed as one of the "World's Best IP Blogs". BananaIP.com, December 2015.

* IPTango founder Professor Jeremy Phillips was listed as one of the Managing Intellectual Property magazine's "Fifty Most Influential People" of 2005, 2011, 2013, and 2014.

* Listed as one of the "Influential intellectual property blawgs". A Dictionary of Intellectual Property Law, Peter Groves, 2011.

* Listed as one of the "Communities of Blawgers". Los blogs jurídicos y la web 2.0. para la difusión y la enseñanza del derecho, Gonzalo Ramírez Cleves, 2010.