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The Agency for Access to Public Information published its 2022 activities report

By Mariano Peruzzotti, Andrea Sanchez Vicentini and Belén Sorrentino. The Agency for Access to Public Information (“Agency”) published its annual report highlighting the activities rendered during 2022. We briefly comment on the most important aspects concerning Personal Data Protection included in the report: New Personal Data Protection law bill The Agency conducted a process aimed […]

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Copyright and Marrakesh Treaty in Latin America

By Antonella Balbo. It’s been seven years since the entry into force of the Marrakesh Treaty (or hereinafter the Treaty), and yet there are more countries not implementing it than the ones who are. The Marrakesh Treaty is a tool created by the international community that forms part of the body of international copyright treaties […]

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The protection of artistic legacy as part of image rights

By Abril Neiman and Olivia Molina. Using someone’s image without authorization is a violation of that person’s image. Not only does unauthorized use cause frustration, but such images may also be used under a concept or idea that is contrary to what the person represents. A recent example is the famous Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. […]

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Ibero-American Personal Data Protection Network authorities coordinate on ChatGPT investigation

By Mariano Peruzzotti, Josefina Piñeiro and Julieta Martinez Correa. The Ibero-American Personal Data Protection Network has announced it first coordinated enforcement action to investigate ChatGPT. The investigation may cover 12 jurisdictions. The Ibero-American Personal Data Protection Network is an association of Spanish speaking countries in North, Central and South America plus Brazil, Spain and Portugal. […]

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How to avoid rebranding and the Toblerone case

By Delfina Sejas. We all know the iconic Toblerone packaging, yellow and with a mountain. For many, it is just a mountain, but in fact, the main logo of the Mondelez trademark represents a Swiss mountain known as the “Matterhorn”. Switzerland was where the U.S. company produced the well-known chocolate in the shape of “triangles”, […]

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Women and IP: innovation and science in Argentina

By Raquel Flanzbaum and Mariel Chichisola. Women do not hold places of relevance in science and innovation in the same proportion as men. This is well known and widely discussed, and it is difficult to change this situation. The ongoing debate about the ability of legislative change to produce social transformation is interesting. Is it […]

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Summary of the article “Apuntes sobre la modernización de la Ley de Marcas” (Notes on the modernization of the Trademark Law), published in the Industrial Property Supplement – elDial.com, on April 18, 2023. Author: Juan Carlos Ojam.

The author comments on the main issues that, in his opinion, should be updated in the Argentine Trademark Law (Law No. 22,362[1], enacted December 26, 1980 and amended in 2018 by the decree of necessity and urgency No. 27/2018 on “Debureaucratization and simplification”[2], subsequently ratified by Law No. 27,444 on “Simplification and Debureaucratization for the […]

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Argentina is now a party to the Convention 108+ of the Council of Europe

By Andrea Sanchez Vicentini, Josefina Piñeiro and Mariano Peruzzotti. On April 17th, Argentina became the 23rd State to ratify the Convention 108+ of the Council of Europe. In a ceremony held during the opening of the Privacy 2023 Symposium devoted to the Treaty, the Director of the Agency of Access to Public Information of Argentina, […]

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Can functional shapes be protected under copyright?

By Antonella Balbo. Copyright law is essential for protecting creative works such as literary, artistic, and musical works. However, is copyright an option to protect functional shapes, when they can no longer be protected under industrial property law? When an invention complies with the requirements of novelty, inventive step, and industrial applicability, providing a new […]

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New version of the Personal Data Protection Bill

By Mariano Peruzzotti y Andrea Sanchez Vicentini In February of this year, the Argentine Agency for Access to Public Information (“AAIP”) published a new version of Argentina’s Personal Data Protection Bill (“Bill”). As we commented in a previous edition of the BeNews (see here), the AAIP announced last year that it began the process of […]

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