Drop-sanctioned violation of copyright

The Sixth Court of Appeals Court for Criminal and Correctional Drop Argentina has convicted a payment of $ 50,000 for an offense against intellectual property as it considers necessary to enable participants in the exchange of materials protected by copyright. The sentence has fallen because they act as facilitators and to allow illegal downloads made ​​aware of all this even though the actual site itself does not store any files protected by copyright.

Justice in Argentina have determined that despite the day being created about 20,000 new to the site posts many of them do not contain material protected by copyright, site managers knew and allowed the existence of downloads of content. Precisely because the posting number as high as the defense of the accused is impossible to determine to what extent must have been a violation of rights.

The ruling is important because it sets the basis for a prosecution where offenders are sentenced not to host the content protected by copyright but for easy downloading, having knowledge of it and above all essential elements to act the same. Recall that Portal is one of the possible pages that can be blocked by known Sinde Law and Aldo Olcese as president of the Coalition of Authors and Artists will be prosecuted even if they are hosted abroad .

The cause of the sanction is number 41,181 in the Court of Instruction No. 44. The document that dictates the decision can be downloaded in PDF format from the News Agency of the Judiciary .

Drop sanctioned for violation of the copyright written ALT1040 May 7, 2011 by Carlos Rebato
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