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COMPARATIVE LAW PERSPECTIVE ON P2P FILE SHARING DIEGO ALBERTO HERRERA FALQUEZ PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD JAVERIANA FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS JURÍDICAS PROGRAMA DE DERECHO BOGOTÁ D.C. 2012 COMPARATIVE LAW PERSPECTIVE ON P2P FILE SHARING DIEGO ALBERTO HERRERA FALQUEZ Trabajo de Grado para obtener el Título de Abogado Director HERNANDO GUTIERREZ PRIETO Profesor Departamento Derecho Privado PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD JAVERIANA FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS JURÍDICAS PROGRAMA DE DERECHO BOGOTÁ D.C. 2012 NOTA DE ADVERTENCIA “La Universidad no se hace responsable por los conceptos emitidos por sus alumnos en sus trabajos de tesis. Solo velará por que no se publique nada contrario al dogma y a la moral católica y por que las tesis no contengan ataques personales contra persona alguna, antes bien se vea en ellas el anhelo de buscar la verdad y la justicia”. ! 2! ABSTRACT The primary objective of this paper is to expose the inevitable change that the world is facing with regards to the information tsunami and the right of everybody to access it, taking advantage of the technology at our disposition. It seems contradictory that the world is taking a leap of faith towards the free market, free economy, and the removal of many other barriers that existed before this day, thus it looks like the protection towards copyright is increasing. Within an economical and regulatory point of view, the world is in need of a modern system that can adapt to the peoples’ needs nowadays. The law should follow society, not vice versa. That is why prohibiting and censoring free information that lies on the Web is a categorical mistake. Throughout history we have learned that prohibition has not only led us to more criminality, but it has drained our resources in the fight against the black market. This paper analyzes the legal scope and regulation that is in force today in the United States and Colombia, that directly or indirectly relates to P2P file sharing. P2P file sharing is a system based on social collaboration. People are solidary with each other by sharing whatever information they have. The protection of the file sharing system is in total harmony with a social state of law. The regulation that our legislature should be imposing, is the one that can help people gather this information more safely, ergo, instead of criminalizing and persecuting innocent individuals or internet providers (ISPs), we should be going after the people who make internet unsafe. Therefore, this paper ends up recommending some viable alternatives that the countries legislatures have that are more comprehensive with P2P file sharing and that adjust to the modern day technological era. ! ! 3! TABLE&OF&CONTENTS& INTRODUCTION)......................................................................................................................................)4! WHAT!IS!P2P!FILE!SHARING?!.................................................................................................................................!4! BACKGROUND!INFORMATION!.................................................................................................................................!7! LEGAL)IMPLICATIONS)OF)P2P)FILE)SHARING)UNDER)COPYRIGHT)REGULATION)SCOPE )...................................................................................................................................................................)12! NAPSTER,!INC.!CASE!.............................................................................................................................................!17! COPYRIGHT)REGULATION)RELATED)TO)P2P)FILE)SHARING)................................................)22! UNITED!STATES!OF!AMERICA!..............................................................................................................................!22! U.S.$Federal$Code$................................................................................................................................................$22! Code$of$Federal$Regulations$..........................................................................................................................$30! Copyright$Act$of$1976$......................................................................................................................................$30! Piracy$and$Counterfeiting$Amendments$Act$of$1982$.........................................................................$32! Digital$Millennium$Copyright$Act$(DMCA)$of$1998$............................................................................$32! SOPA$(Stop$Online$Piracy$Act)$.....................................................................................................................$36! ACTA$(AntiJCounterfeiting$Trade$Agreement)$.....................................................................................$38! Free$Trade$Agreements$...................................................................................................................................$40! North!American!Free!Trade!Agreement!(NAFTA)!...........................................................................................................!40! Dominican!RepublicQCentral!AmericaQUnited!States!Free!Trade!Agreement!(CAFTAQDR)!...........................!42! United!StatesQColombia!Trade!Promotion!Agreement!(CTPA)!..................................................................................!47! COLOMBIA!................................................................................................................................................................!51! Law$23$of$1982$....................................................................................................................................................$52! “Lleras”$Bil$V.$1.0$................................................................................................................................................$58! Law$1520$of$2012$(“Lleras”$Bill$$V.2.0)$....................................................................................................$61! International$Treaties$ratified$by$Colombia$..........................................................................................$67! The!Berne!Convention!.................................................................................................................................................................!67! WIPO!Copyright!Treaty!...............................................................................................................................................................!69! Decision$of$the$Andean$Community$351$of$1993$.................................................................................$70! Case$Law$................................................................................................................................................................$72! LENIENT)COPYRIGHT)REGULATION)TO)FIT)P2P)FILE)SHARING)PROTOCOLS).................)75! REASONS!FOR!A!P2P!FILE!SHARING!ACCEPTED!REALITY!..............................................................................!75! IDEAS!FOR!A!MODERNIZED!COPYRIGHT!REGULATION!....................................................................................!80! Alternative$Compensation$.............................................................................................................................$81! Alternative$Licensing$Models$........................................................................................................................$84! Open!Source!Licensing!System!.................................................................................................................................................!85! The!Creative!Commons!Licensing!System!...........................................................................................................................!88! The$New$Gradual$Dedication$Model$..........................................................................................................$91! CONCLUSION’S)......................................................................................................................................)96! BIBLIOGRAPHY)....................................................................................................................................)99! ! ! 4! INTRODUCTION& What&is&P2P&file&sharing?& ! It is vital to understand the concept of “file sharing,” before explaining the definition of P2P file sharing. Usually, file sharing is directly associated with virtual1 technology. This means sharing, by means of a network interface or the Internet. The Oxford English Dictionary defines file sharing as: “the practice of or ability to transmit files from one computer to another over a network or the Internet”. File sharing does not include all of the various alternatives for sharing information. For example, printing out information from a CD-ROM2 and then sharing its content with another person, is not considered file sharing. “While files can easily be shared outside a network (for example, simply by handing or mailing someone your file on a diskette), the term file sharing almost always means sharing files in a network, even if in a small local area network. File sharing allows a number of people to use the same file or file by some combination of being able to read or view it, write to or modify it, copy it, or print it.” (Rouse, Definition: File Sharing) Peer-to-Peer file sharing (hereinafter P2P file sharing) is a newly recognized concept in which every computer connected to the Internet may