Dear reader, if you buy an original CD of his favorite band, in an established and ballot, you know you can not transfer it to your MP3 player because it is a violation of copyright law? Or if you're a student, you know that if your teacher gives a test reading a particular book, and it happens that is not available in the library, he can not make photocopies? Welcome, then, in Chile, a country clearly behind in intellectual property issues and copyright.
digital and Internet technologies have brought new challenges to artistic production and cultural, especially with regard to the protection of copyright. Nobody denies that the effort made by an artist when you create a value. Is the cultural production that reflects our feelings and social conflict, which makes present, transmits and challenges us to take care of their themes. Clearly, those who opt to live like this deserve proper recognition and why not, a well-deserved financial reward.
Internet raises complex in regulating these issues. Streaming music, videos, books or other content for free, instant, brings an apparent injury to the creators, who are forgoing money that should enter into their pockets, at least under present standards. To fix this, along with other issues, is working on a new Intellectual Property Law.
For months, various groups interested in the subject, most civil society representatives met in order to reach consensus regarding exceptions and new paradigms of intellectual property. The artists gathered in the AN (National Union of Artists) have proposed that companies that deliver Internet service to take responsibility for any use that their users to provide connections for a fee that can "alleviate" the alleged injury suffered. What they do not understand is that Internet changed forever the way to understand and convey the culture and fight or fight the users will never be the way to solve the problem. Bands like Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails lights have new ways to understand this market, with an emphasis on live shows and releasing their songs. They have perceived that the public rewards their faithfulness to those who can connect with their interests. It would be a shame that the representatives of culture, so successful at the time of expressing the course of time, fail in this monumental task of understanding the world has changed, and forever.
