Parliamentary Front Against Piracy is launched in Congress

By ETCO
29/05/2015
Pedro França / Senate Agency
Pedro França / Senate Agency

The Mixed Parliamentary Front in Defense of Intellectual Property and Combating Piracy was installed in the National Congress on Wednesday (27). The objective is to create pragmatic actions in the Legislative that strengthen the mechanisms of innovation, competitiveness and productivity, through projects and stimulating civil society for other initiatives that do not depend on laws.

The parliamentary front has deputy Nelson Marchezan Júnior (PSDB-RS) as president and senator Vanessa Grazziotin (PCdoB-AM) as vice president. The first initiative will be to list the bills that deal with the matter to speed up its processing in the Chamber of Deputies and the Federal Senate. Two of them have already been identified: the PLs 333/1999 e 63/2012, under analysis in the Chamber, which increase the severity of penalties for crimes against intellectual property and for reducing costs and bureaucracy.

- We have already installed CPIs relevant to the fight against piracy. I am sensitive and I know the importance of the topic, I have already acted in other initiatives to promote intellectual property - declared Senator Vanessa Grazziotin, who also suggested raising the awareness of unions and workers for the relevance of intellectual property and the fight against piracy as a way to protect jobs and generate wealth in the country.

- There is no way for the public sector to mobilize itself in a correct, constructive and agile way if it does not have organized civil society, which are you, - thanked Deputy Marchezan Júnior, mentioning the dozens of sectorial entities present at the event, such as Brazilian Association of Intellectual Property (ABPI), the Brazilian Association of Software Companies (Abes), the Brazilian Pay-TV Association (ABTA) and the Motion Picture Association (MPA) - Latin America, among others.

Source: Agência Senado (27/05)