Intellectual property rights in the Ecuadorian music industry: Digital media

• Main Author: Juan Aguirre Navarrete
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador 2020-08-01
• Series: Revista Facultad de Jurisprudencia
• Subjects: digitization; recording industry; music; copyright; intellectual property
• Online Access: http://www.revistarfjpuce.edu.ec/index.php/rfj/article/view/296

Inside the panorama of the music industry have been generated by several legal relationships. Generally, the artist is only concerned with expressing his ideas through songs, based on deep feelings or experiences that have marked him, but he does not realize that he is in a very complicated legal relationship when privatizing his creations. Many artists throughout their careers legal issues related to the use of copyrights in their discography; a very recent case is that of the famous artist Taylor Swift where the problem lies in the snatching of their copyright author. This miscellaneous article focuses on identifying the regulations with which the Ecuadorian government protects intellectual property rights in the Ecuadorian music industry in the current digital era. As a final result, we state that Ecuadorian legislation has an optimal regulation that encourages the operation of the intellectual property regime in Ecuador. However, artists do not choose to enter this industry due to the low performance it has in our country.