Category Brazil

Digital Pirates: Policing Intellectual Property In Brazil

Digital technology has created an intellectual property standoff. One one side, the IP protectors (or "maximalists") fear piracy. One the other, the pirates rail against patent trolls, large corporations, and acquisitive mega-stars. Such battles about digital textuality manifest in different ways around the globe, igniting local debates about policing, expression, and imitation. This book offers the idea of "circulatory legitimacy" as a way to explain how both sides are talking past each other. Its aim is to open new spaces for policy, creativity, and governance.

Brazil Seeks Comments on Copyright Reform

On June 28th, the Brazilian Government through the Special Secretariat of Culture opened a new public consultation on the need to reform and update the 1998 Copyright Act. The main goal is stated to be to “deal with the new technologies and new business models that have emerged over this period”. Accordingly, streaming services, content upload and sharing platforms, artificial intelligence and so on are on the list.

Mapping Digital Media: Brazil

Due to the growing need to better understand the technological and cultural transformations that digitization has caused in the production and consumption of content and news, and recognizing the importance of guaranteeing access to abundant and reliable information, researchers from the Center for Technology and Society (CTS/ FGV Rio Law School) worked alongside the Open Society Foundations in a project, involving more than 50 countries, which analyzed the impacts of this process of digitization in Brazil and around the world.