Peru. The Ministry of Transport and Communications, MTC, announced that it will cancel the concession of cable TV companies that broadcast pirated content, with the aim of reducing the growing informality in cable broadcasting, protecting the rights of citizens and developing mechanisms that safeguard the principles of ethics and formality in the market.
Likewise, the possibility has been included in the Regulations of the Telecommunications Law that these companies lose the concession to provide services, in case they do not respect copyright. The purpose is to prevent pirated or unauthorized content from being broadcast.
These control and control actions have been possible after the approval of Supreme Decree No. 015-2019-MTC, recently published by the sector and which constitutes a strict compliance standard.
"The application of this modification establishes that the State is in the power to terminate a cable TV operation contract, as long as the infringing companies have been previously audited and the sector has issued a final administrative resolution," said Deputy Minister of Communications Virginia Nakagawa.
Included as grounds for termination of concession contracts: the distribution, redistribution, transmission, retransmission or commercialization of the contents without the authorization of the owner, aspects that were not previously incorporated in the General Regulations of the Telecommunications Law.
This measure promoted by the MTC is framed under international treaties signed such as Andean Decision 351, the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, the Rome Convention on the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations, the WIPO Copyright Treaty, the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty, among others.
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There are 664 formal companies that provide the public cable broadcasting service. The Ministry of Production estimates that piracy causes losses amounting to US$ 72 million annually to the State and US$ 171 million to the private sector.
