David Bravo Bueno

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David Bravo Bueno (b, February 20, 1978) is a Spanish lawyer specialized in intellectual property rights.

He is well known for his strong defense of the right to make a private copy of copyrighted works, as it is explicitly allowed by the current Spanish legislation. He is often requested to participate in TV debates about so-called piracy and p2p file sharing.

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Bravo argues that downloading files is undoubtedly legal and uploading, although more controversial, is surely not a crime, within the current Spanish legislation [1]. His views are grounded mainly on the Intellectual Propierty Law (1996), Article 31, 2nd Chapter, "Reproduction without authorization" and the Penal Code, Article 270 [2]. The SGAE (General Association of Authors and Editors) strongly disagrees with Bravo and the Spanish government often makes campaigns backing SGAE's views on the matter.

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[3]Copia este libro (Copy this book): among many other issues, Bravo discusses how the current Spanish legislation allows the right to copy copyrighted works without the author's consentment ("private copy").

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