Article 424 Bis Federal Criminal Code

Imprisonment of three to ten years and from two thousand to twenty thousand days fine shall be imposed:

I.On anyone who produces, reproduces, introduces into the country, stores, transports, distributes, sells or rents copies of works, phonograms, videograms or books, protected by the Federal Copyright Law, intentionally, for purposes of commercial speculation and without the authorization that, in the terms of the cited Law, the holder of the copyright or related rights must grant.

The same penalty shall be imposed on those who, knowingly, contribute or provide in any form, raw materials or inputs destined to the production or reproduction of the works, phonograms, videograms or books referred to in the preceding paragraph;

II.On anyone who manufactures for profit a device or system whose purpose is to deactivate the electronic protection devices of a computer program, or

III.On anyone who records, transmits or makes a total or partial copy of a protected cinematographic work, exhibited in a movie theater or places that act as such, without the authorization of the holder of the copyright or related rights.