SENADIAC launches campaign against piracy

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SENADIAC launches campaign against piracy
SENADIAC launches campaign against piracy

Africa-Press – Angola. The National Copyright and Related Rights Service (SENADIAC) launched, this afternoon, an educational and pedagogical campaign with the aim of combating acts of piracy.

The campaign, which will be disseminated through television and radio debates, seminars, street activities and the distribution of information material aimed at protecting intellectual property, will begin this month, bringing together entities responsible for carrying out the tasks of administrative management of the copyright system.

At the end of the public presentation ceremony of the “Partners Against Piracy” initiative, the director of SENADIAC, Barros Licencia, said that the program is a multisectoral coordination platform focused on combating and repressing acts of piracy against intellectual property and the infrastructures that allow the circulation of creative contents.

According to the source, the goal is to reach entrepreneurs, creators, bodies of socio-professional associations and political decision-makers for the creation of adequate policies against the phenomenon.

“If the issue of piracy is not taken seriously, it can cause serious damage to the economy, national security and social stability”, he said.

Barros Licencia said that pay-TV signal distribution companies, which have already been invaded, feel their productivity affected. “We are working with INACOM, ANIESA, INADEC, AGT and SIC to remedy this situation”, he said.

For the secretary general of the National Union of Artists and Composers (UNAC-SA), Eliseu Major, the campaign will be arduous and there is an urgent need for artists to register their works to inhibit the action of offenders.

He found worrying the fact that some artists register their works abroad, giving rise to the idea that little is being done to defend their rights at national level.

The campaign will run annually, over a period of six months and will have territorial coverage.

The protection of intellectual property encourages creative and innovative activities that allow for technological, economic and social development.

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