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The deputies of the Legislative Assembly approved, with 59 votes, the Intellectual Property Law, a regulation that seeks to protect intellectual property rights. The new law will give way to the creation of the Instituto Salvadoreño de la Propiedad Intelectual (ISPI), which will be in charge of the CNR and will provide simplified, digitalized and automated services, to make the inscriptions of the works electronically and no longer only in person.
The new regulation will not only protect the intellectual property rights of individuals, but will also promote economic development and boost creativity and innovation within the country, facilitating the creation of patents and helping the creation of SMEs.
Thanks to the implementation of this regulation, there will be a reduction of up to 50% in the cost of procedures for the culture and arts sector, the educational community and the private sector (SMEs accredited by the National Commission for Micro and Small Enterprises).
The approved regulation will protect works of human intellect, such as literary works, computer programs, musical works with or without lyrics, oratory and dramatic or dramatic-musical works. Also included are choreographic works, cinematographic works, drawing, painting, architecture, sculpture, engraving and lithography. Also protected are graphic and typographic works, photographic works and those made with techniques analogous to photography, works of applied arts, illustrations, geographical maps, plans, sketches and plastic works related to geography, topography, architecture and sciences.
The law will exempt from payment for special projects, institutions of all levels of formal education regulated by the General Law of Education in filing, publication, registration rights of distinctive signs, patents and copyright, as well as the State and municipalities.
