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Copyrights Infringement

Correctional imprisonment for three (3) months to three (3) years, and fines of fifty (50) to one thousand (1000) minimum wages to:
  • Those who register or by any means disseminate as their own a literary, artistic or scientific work, artistic interpretation or performance, phonographic production or radio broadcast, in whole or in part, attempting to mask it through alterations or suppressions, claiming for themselves or others the authorization or proprietary rights belonging to somebody else;

  • Those who modify, reproduce or distribute a work in whole or in part;

  • Those who distribute, reproduce or transmit by any means works subject to proprietary rights, after termination of the assignment contract or the license granted;

  • Anyone divulging an unpublished work without prior authorization therefor, or disseminating copyrighted material after removing or altering the name or pseudonym of the author or interpreter, or after making alterations or suppressions that may threaten the work's decorum or the author's reputation;

  • Anyone who manufactures, assembles, imports, modifies, sells or otherwise circulates any device, system or equipment capable of avoiding or deactivating another device intended to prevent or restrict the copying, interpreting, performing, producing or broadcasting of the works, or to lessen the quality of the copies made; or capable of evading or deactivating another device intended to prevent or control the reception of programs transmitted to the public via wired or wireless telecommunications, or in any other manner, by those not authorized for such reception.

  • Anyone who in any way alters, eliminates or eludes the devices or technical media introduced in the protected works, interpretations, performances, productions or broadcastings, so as to prevent or restrict the reproduction or control thereof.
Fines from ten (10) to fifty (50) minimum wages shall be imposed on anyone who:
  • Having authorization to publish a work does so: without mentioning the name of the author, translator, adapter, compiler, or arranger, as the case may be; or if he/she includes the proprietor's name with additions or deletions which may affect the copyright owner's reputation; if he/she publishes the work with abbreviations, additions or deletions, or with any other modification without prior authorization; or if he/she publishes several works separately, when only authorized to publish them together.

  • Usurps, modifies or alters the copyrighted title of a work.

  • Is responsible for the non-payment of royalties as appropriate, when authorized to such ends.

  • Omits the mandatory notices of copyright established in the representation agreement.


For further information please contact to:

Lic. Freddy Miranda

fmiranda@fgasoc.com.do

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