COPYRIGHT AND/OR NEIGHBOURING RIGHTS

12 September 2022

COPYRIGHT AND/OR NEIGHBOURING RIGHTS

On December 31st, 2021 (as per article 2(3) of Lei n.º 21/2021, de 20 de Abril) the five years plus one of application of article 58 of the Tax Benefits Statute (EBF), which provided for some exemptions for artistic and literary creation, of central importance, ended.

After long months of insistence by the creative and artistic sector and by organizations representing it, a new hole seems to have finally been placed in a belt that often tightens for rights holders, and in the event of loss of the benefits that we speak, it would mean an immense and terrible guillotine to the already fragile sector.

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