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The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines is hoping that this time around, Congress will be able to approve the proposed amendments to the Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines.

The CitizenWatch Philippines has welcomed the enactment into law of the Philippine Creatives Industry Act which mandates the government to promote the development and the rights afforded to the creatives industry and to Filipino creatives. The Republic Act 11904 or the Philippine Creatives Industr

A consumer advocacy group has lauded the lapsing into law of Republic Act 11904 or the Philippine Creatives Industry Act, saying this is a major step toward achieving the full potential of the country’s creatives industry, even as it warned that the law would only work as envisioned if it is implemented adequately.

The Department of Trade and Industry has identified three priority legislative measures for immediate passage by Congress to support economic growth. These priority bills are the Senate confirmation on the ratification of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), Omnibus Micro Small

The local music industry has just scored a major victory in its fight against unabated music piracy and copyright infringement, which is costing the sound recording industry and the government billions of pesos in lost profits and revenues.

Supreme Court (SC) Is the act of playing radio broadcast with copyrighted music through the use of loudspeakers (radio-over-loudspeakers) without a license from the copyright owner considered a performance and an infringement of copyright? Yes, said the Supreme Court (SC) as it cited jurispr

THE Supreme Court has upheld the right of the Filipino Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Inc. (FILSCAP) to collect license fees and/or royalties over copyrighted works of its member artists played through the use of loudspeakers. In a decision penned by Justice Rodil V. Zalameda, the Court En Banc reversed…

The new adminis-tration inherited a deadly and economically crippling pandemic, a heavy debt that was incurred to respond to the health crisis, surging fuel prices, a much weakened peso as well as crises in agriculture, food security and education.

Foreign and business groups in the Philippines have called for the passage of 24 priority reform measures in the 19th Congress to boost economic growth in the country. The groups submitted their recommendations to President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on July 20 in anticipation of the president’s first S

A team composed of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) personnel seized an estimated P1.5 billion worth of various smuggled goods, fake luxury items, and cigarette-manufacturing materials from a warehouse located in Valenzuela City, authorities revealed Friday,