Colombia. Ernesto Orozco, representative of the Governorates in the National Television Board, participated in the eighth edition of the Anti-Piracy and Content Summit 2017, whose objective was to understand how piracy on the Internet affects the television sector and what challenges it represents for the different market players.
In the panel Intellectual Property in Media Laws, in which Gustavo Pupo - Mayo of Tap Latin America participated; Irely Achique of the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property of Mexico (IMPI); and Carolina Romero of the National Directorate of Copyright, an entity attached to the Ministry of the Interior of Colombia, socialized the functions they perform in their respective positions.
In addition, the challenges faced by local regulatory frameworks concerning copyright and intellectual property on the Internet, existing legal mechanisms to combat illegality and Latin America's challenges in terms of piracy surveillance were presented.
For his part, Ernesto Orozco stressed that the ANTV is the main interlocutor between the different actors of the audiovisual industry market and listed the main challenges facing the entity such as the need to promote television services by reducing asymmetries to boost the sector, the implementation of technological neutrality to guarantee equal access of users to audiovisual content and the reduction of compensation for the cable operators and viewers.
In addition, the Representative of the Governorates in the JNTV pointed out that the existing Colombian legislation, relating to the protection of copyright, has a purely criminal approach and must be adapted to disruptive models in the digital context to encourage the migration of users to the consumption of content that respects the use and exploitation of intellectual property belonging to third parties.
The most recent edition of the Anti-Piracy and Content Summit, held in Bogotá, is part of the tour of conversations related to this topic in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Guatemala.
