Spain: : Offering advanced P2P technology is not connected to IPR infringement

• Autores: Cristina Cullell-March
• Localización: IRIS: Legal Observations of the European Audiovisual Observatory, ISSN-e 1023-8565, Nº. 6, 2014, págs. 15-16
• Idioma: francés
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• Resumen

  • On 8 April 2014, the Madrid Court of Appeals found a Spanish software developer not guilty of an Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) infringement. According to the Regional Court of Appeals, developing a P2P software is legal and does not infringe IPRs; in particular, the Court decision states that P2P protocols are a tool to connect devices and therefore allows users to share content stored on his or her own computer. Indeed, P2P software allows direct and decentralised communication among users, and software developers do not interfere in the communication process as file sharing takes place among user devices.