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This is a Community legislation covering Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. This decision gives protection to intellectual works. Article 3 defines “distribution to the public”, “divulgation”, “retransmission” as making the work available to the public by any form. Article 13 gives the exclusive right to the author and/or right holders to authorize or prohibit the reproduction by any means. This decision does not specifically establish provisions regarding intermediary liability on the internet. However, Article 54 may find application in this context, where it states that “No authority or person, whether natural person or legal entity, may authorize the use of a work, performance, phonographic production or broadcast, or lend his support to such use, if the user does not have the express prior authorization of the...

This is one of series of country reports prepared for the Council of Europe in 2015. Other countries' reports, and responses from national governments, are available here. The studies undertake to present the laws and, in so far as information is easily available, the practices concerning the filtering, blocking and takedown of illegal content on the internet.

The Brazilian General Data Protection Law (Lei Geral de Dados Pessoais – LGDP) is the result of Bill 5276/2016, based on an online public consultation organized by the Brazilian Ministry of Justice, which collected more than 1,000 contributions from various stakeholders. It was enacted on August 14th, 2018. The law is deeply influenced by the European Union Data Protection Directive (Directive 95/46/EC), which was in force during the consultations, and also borrows much from the European General Data Protection Regulation, which was under discussion at the time. It enshrines core principles for the processing of personal data. It encompasses the activities of both the private and public sector, and creates a data protection entity that would be responsible for creating norms, supervising, and enforcing data protection...