Latest news and stories about copyright in Portugal for expats and residents.
Illegal streaming and distribution of audiovisual content result in significant financial damage, estimated at 260 million euros.
Digital and audiovisual piracy has an impact of more than 200 million euros per year on the national economy. Portugal is actually at the top of the list of European Union countries that consume the most illegal content via the internet, with one million users.
The director of the Judiciary Police (PJ) argued today that audiovisual content piracy is a form of highly organised crime that “fosters money laundering” and goes beyond copyright infringement.
Digital piracy consumption in Portugal is 33% higher than the European average.
A declaration signed by editors and directors from more than 30 countries also advocates for “ethics in capital and governance” of media outlets and denounces the abuses of disinformation.
Experts warn that the lack of transparency regarding the use of data by generative artificial intelligence could create illicit situations, namely the misappropriation of artistic material protected by copyright.
It took four years for Brussels to listen to what so many have been saying regarding the abuses committed by those who own artificial intelligence algorithms. Opinion by Carlos Eugénio
Members of the European Parliament have approved a package of measures to protect the creative sector in the EU from the use of protected works by artificial intelligence systems.
Changing the buttons on the Valentino dress that Margarida Maldonado Freitas wore at the inauguration does not violate copyright, but it could be an “offence to creative identity”, says a lawyer.
The initiative emerges in the United Kingdom one week before the British government presents an update on a proposal that aims to allow AI companies to use copyrighted works without the writer's permission, unless the author has previously signalled that they do not authorise the use of their books.
The European Parliament approved a report today proposing remuneration for artists whose works are used by generative artificial intelligence systems, with the aim of protecting the European creative sector.
Likewise, the Parliament argues that media outlets “whose audiences and revenues are diverted by artificial intelligence systems must be fully compensated.”
A song generated by AI and posted on TikTok that misused Taylor Swift’s melody from ‘The Fate of Ophelia’ and the voice of Brazilian singer Luísa Sonza has been banned from several platforms but continues to be shared. In Portugal, this illegal adaptation reached figures high enough to enter the singles chart — meaning it could have earned revenue in the country — but it was subsequently banned by the Portuguese Phonographic Association.
