IPTango: ex officio actions

Monday, 17 October 2011

INDECOPI is happy to act ex officio - good results for a good cause

Patricia Covarrubia October 17, 2011 No comments:

The INDECOPI’s Copyright Commission informs that between 2009 and 2011 has initiated 44investigations against cable companies across the country that appear to transmit television signals without authorization from the copyright owners. From the 44 investigation it is claimed that 24 investigations were initiated ex officio and the remaining were at the request of complainants. INDECOPI reveals that from this figure 39 cases have been solved applying fines.

Regarding the case of ‘Cable Orion Co’, as soon as INDECOPI’s Technical Secretariat of the Copyright Commission was aware, it initiated a preliminary investigation into the alleged infringement of cable television signal. The authority said that if the accusations are confirmed the process will begin and appropriate administrative sanctions will apply.

Source INDECOPI.

Tuesday, 22 February 2011

Ecuador's ex officio anti-piracy enforcement hits constitutional snag

Jeremy February 22, 2011 No comments:

A combination of inertia on the part of rights owners and ease of infringement has seen a massive surge in the amount of infringement of copyright in recorded music and videos. While iit is open to the Ecuadorian Intellectual Property Institute (IEPI) – the body responsible for monitoring and protecting IP rights – to initiate actions ex officio if such rights are infringed, the high costs involved and a lack of personnel, infrastructure and adequate technology has meant that the IEPI has been unable to combat piracy effectively.

The IEPI has so far initiated actions ex officio under the Intellectual Property Act against 26 stores which sold unlicensed CDs and DVDs, inflicting fines of approximately $1.8 million on each occasion. If such fines are not paid, criminal action will be taken. In response to these actions the Ecuadorian Association of Audiovisual Product Traders has filed a constitutional claim against the IEPI under Article 325 of the Constitution.

Source: "IP authority initiates ex officio anti-piracy actions", written for International Law Office by Santiago R Bustamante (Tobar & Bustamante 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.