SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect Intellectual Property Act) are bills that have been put before the House of Representatives and the Senate respectively in the US, designed to fight online piracy. If enforced, those who are found guilty of streaming copyrighted content illegally 10 or more times within six months would face [...]

As a consequence of the CAFTA Agreement (Free Trade Agreement between the Dominican Republic, Central America and the United States), Costa Rica acquired a series of obligations which resulted in the modification of the intellectual property legislation. On December 16, 2011, the official newspaper, La Gaceta, published decree number 36880-COMEX-JP, which limits the liability of [...]