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Tuesday, 7 June 2011

Brazil: artistic and cultural works under one roof

Patricia Covarrubia June 07, 2011 No comments:

The General Coordinator of Copyright at the Ministry of Culture (MinC), Cristiano Lopes, informed last Thursday ( June, 2nd) during a public hearing on reform of the Copyright Law, held in the Committee on Education and Culture of the House of Representatives that a new entity will be created to oversee the work of collective management of copyright. The new structure will also have the assignment to unify the records of artistic and cultural Brazilian works in one place. It will also stimulate research.

The Director of Intellectual Property Rights at the Ministry of Culture, Marcia Barbosa, said that this proposition made by the Ministry of Culture shall establish the observance of sufficient parameters to ensure transparent and fair collection and distribution of copyright, as established by the Constitution, without neglecting the interests of users. She also mentioned that the unification of the registry will facilitate the society's knowledge of the works that are in the public domain.

Colombia: Sobe el pago de los derechos de autor

Gilberto Macias (@gmaciasb) November 11, 2010 No comments:

Gracias a Carolina Calderón, nos enteramos de que en Colombia hay personas que reclaman indebidamente a los establecimientos que difunden música y videos, el pago correspondiente “supuestamente” a los derechos de autor de las obras reproducidas.

Pues bien, el Gobierno colombiano ha decidido poner fin a ello y mediante el Decreto 3942 de octubre de 2010, regula la forma en que deben pagarse los derechos de autor

“El cobro y gestión individual de los derechos de autor sólo podrá ser adelantado por el artista o titular de los mismos, y no por firmas o particulares supuestamente autorizadas para esta labor”

Malyns Reyes, representante de Sayco Acinpro en Cartagena, ha señalado que: “Con la reglamentación nacional se pone freno a sociedades y personas que de manera ilegal atacaban los intereses de sus asociados, ya que estaban recaudando los derechos de autor sin tener en cuenta los mecanismos legales para protegerlos”.

Cualquier persona que haya pagado o que le hayan reclamado dicho pago, puede ponerse en contacto con la Dirección Nacional de Derechos de Autor para resolver sus dudas.

Brazilian Copyright Law for public consultation - new deadline

Patricia Covarrubia July 27, 2010 No comments:

The public consultation for the reform of the Copyright Act will be open until August the 31st. The initial period of 45 days will end on July 28 and this was extended to expand the opportunity for participation.

Since June 14th there has been more than 1200 contributions submitted. According to the Ministry of Culture, the most addressed issues are: Article 1 which deals with the purpose of the Act; Article 41 which deals with the economic rights time limit; and Article 46, regarding the limitations to copyright.

Therefore, the Ministry of Culture Mr Jesus Ferreira believes that this new deadline will allow bigger participation. "We chose consulting because we believe it will help the government improve the text. We see this tool as a continuation of a democratic process that began almost eight years and has involved all interested parties, he said.

At the end of the consultation, the text will be redrafted based on the proposals. There is no deadline for the Executive to submit the project to the Congress.

The Brazilian Council of Cultural Entities gives its opinion

Patricia Covarrubia July 21, 2010 No comments:

As announced recently on this blog, Brazil unveiled its Copyright reform proposal. This proposal for the revision of the Copyright Law is running a public consultation and on July 19th the Minister of Culture received the first formal document from the Conselho Brasileiro de Entidades Culturais (CBEC).

The CBEC claims to be ‘an entity that brings together artists from music, theater, dance, circus, visual arts, film and hip hop.’ For one week, its members have discussed and worked on the draft proposals.

The content of this document
The CBEC starts by thanking the Goverment’s initiative to make the issue of copyright in a public consultation and so hearing what artists have to say and claim. It continues explaining that there are laws that regulate the interests of workers and enterprises and there are others that protect consumer rights. Therefore, the CBEC wants to help to improve a law with respect to its rights as creators. A law, according to the entity, that can recognise and appreciate the contribution that artists bring and so, enabling their works to reach the public and preventing entities and corporations to exploit, in an unreasonable manner, their work.

The document contains 7 pages. By the first page one can notice the artists’ frustration against the companies and enterprises rather than the illegal use, by consumers, of pirated music/videos and so on. The documents is divided into four points and it is written in Portuguese (believe me I have tried my best but I guess that my days (or dates!) in high school were more important than another foreign language lesson).

The points are: assignment of rights, licensing and use of venue by holders of copyright and related rights; non-voluntary licenses and the role of the Government; the office for collection – gathering contributions- and associations of management; and final observations.

The full text can be found here.

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.