Peru achieves milestone cooperation regarding cultural industries and copyright

By Espinosa Bellido Abogados

The National Institute for the Defense of Competition and the Protection of Intellectual Property (Indecopi) of Peru signed with Spain a cooperation agreement in the field of cultural industries and the protection of copyright and related rights.

According to the Ministry of Culture and Sports of Spain, the agreement is "a milestone" for the European country, as it is the first agreement that Spain has specifically signed in such matters with an Ibero-American IP office.

In a press statement release by both countries, Spain emphasized that the agreement with Peru will “set the course for the signing of future collaborations with other copyright offices in the region."

The collaboration main issues were set after the bilateral meetings between Spain and Peru that took place in the framework of the 59th and 60th Series of Meetings of the Assemblies of the Member States of WIPO, in 2019 and 2020.

Some of the activities covered by the agreement are exchange of information, use of new technologies, investigation of activities that infringe copyright and related rights and analysis of national legal framework.