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The Minister of Culture and Sports Jos Manuel Rodrguez Uribes has presided over the signing of a protocol to reinforce the protection of intellectual property rights promoted by the Ministry of Culture and Sports through the General Directorate of Cultural Industries Intellectual Property and Cooperation.Minister Rodrguez Uribes stressed that a correct protection of the rights of creators is a fundamental guarantee to be able to continue enjoying a rich innovative varied and fair cultural ecosystem.It is the first time that such a voluntary code of conduct has been achieved. Therefore in the words of the minister it is a historic pioneering protocol built on the consensus between Internet access operators and representatives of intellectual property rights holders creators and content industries.The protocol represents a milestone in self-regulation and progress both at European and international level signed by 98 of the share of operators in Spain. From the Government we are proud to place Spain at the head of the member states that through a voluntary code of conduct promote self-regulation between the culture sector and the telecommunications operators sector explained Rodrguez Uribes.The general purpose of the agreement is to offer a global response to the efforts that both operators and creators are making to improve the application of current legislation on the protection of intellectual property rights guaranteeing the effectiveness of judicial and administrative decisions that have declared the status of infringer of the copyright of a certain digital service.This text has been the result of the sessions of the Working Group held between the parties involved convened by the General Directorate of Cultural Industries Intellectual Property and Cooperation since March 2020. Its objective has been to promote dialogue to achieve self-regulation to medium and long-term that contributes to promoting a legal digital offer of cultural content and reducing the violation of these rights.The protocol which has been reviewed and favorably considered by the National Markets and Competition Commission CNMC will be applicable to those websites whose infringing nature of intellectual property rights has been judicially declared having adopted measures to interrupt the service access to the Internet provided that certain conditions of repetition of illegal conduct are met.In turn the document proposes the constitution of a Technical Committee in which the Ministry of Culture and Sports may intervene at the invitation of any of the parties.
