Manual of Good Practice for the prosecution of crimes against Intellectual Property
The Ministry of Culture has a Manual of Practice for the prosecution of crimes against intellectual property, developed with the collaboration of a number of entities and organizations that represent and protect the rights of creators.
The Manual is divided into two sections:
In the first, reviews the status of intellectual property and piracy in Spain through a series of statistics and reports provided by the Security Forces of the State, the Attorney General and Ministry of Culture itself. It presents the Government's Comprehensive Plan for the reduction and elimination of activities infringing intellectual property, explaining the different measures of cooperation, prevention, awareness, policy and training that will develop.
In the second, the report proposes a series of best practices for prosecuting intellectual property crimes:
- Performance of Security Forces: Cooperation and coordination between the Security Forces; guidelines for the investigation of the facts; Expertise, sample storage and destruction of effects diligence information to the offended or injured rights and offering actions, and investigation of organized crime.
- Processing of legal proceedings: quick trials for the crime; report; Destination of instruments and effects of crime; precautionary measures, and procedural performance management entities.
- International cooperation: international police cooperation, judicial cooperation international institutions to support international judicial cooperation, and support tools for international judicial cooperation.
This manual is a text recommended reading for anyone interested in intellectual property protection and culture in general.
Additional notes:
- I just discovered the existence of a form of piracy to report an Incident against Intellectual Property provided by the FAP.
- Miguel Angel Mata also echoes this press release (on manual).
- Official web site of the manual (link)
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