Intellectual Property - Brazil
(2001 - current)
Over the past four years, ISDLS has built the necessary foundations
for the development of a collaborative working relationship between
IP industry and the Organized Crimes Division of the Brazilian
Attorney General’s office. This relationship will enable
these bodies to collaborate to investigate and prosecute high
profile pirates.
Through a series of public and private meetings with hundreds
of lawyers, judges, and members of industry, ISDLS determined
that by educating the public about the links between piracy and
organized crime, and by focusing enforcement efforts upon high
profile (organized) piracy criminals, the Government of Brazil
will most effectively be able to eliminate the cultural acceptance
of piracy in Brazil. Effective education and prosecution will
rely on this strong working relationship between the Office of
the Attorney General and private industry that ISDLS has worked
for four years to develop.
In the most recent phase of the Brazilian IP initiative (November
2004), ISDLS sponsored Mr. Ross Nadel, the founder and former
Chief of the Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property Unit of
the U.S. Department of Justice (Silicon Valley), to work for four
days in Sao Paulo and Porto Alegre, Brazil. At a series of meetings
and conferences, Mr. Nadel presented the DOJ’s collaborative
IP enforcement model to representatives from the Brazilian justice
department, the Attorneys’ General offices of Sao Paulo
and Porto Alegre, private industry representatives from the technology,
music, film, and publishing industries, and academicians. All
parties agreed that collaboration between the public and private
sectors, though culturally challenging, would likely be essential
in order to effectively prosecute IP criminals.
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