David Bravo Bueno

David Bravo in a conference in the Granada Byte Festival en 2007

David Bravo Bueno (born February 20, 1978) is a Spanish lawyer specialized in intellectual property rights.

He is well known for his strong defense of the right to make a private copy of copyrighted works, as it is explicitly allowed by the current Spanish legislation. He is often requested to participate in TV debates about so-called piracy and p2p file sharing.

Private copy

Bravo argues that downloading files is undoubtedly legal and uploading, although more controversial, is surely not a crime, within the current Spanish legislation.^[1] His views are grounded mainly on the Intellectual Propierty Law (1996), Article 31, 2nd Chapter, "Reproduction without authorization" and the Penal Code, Article 270.^[2] The SGAE (General Association of Authors and Editors) strongly disagrees with Bravo and the Spanish government often makes campaigns backing SGAE's views on the matter.

Books

• Copia este libro (Copy this book): among many other issues, Bravo discusses how the current Spanish legislation allows the right to copy copyrighted works without the author's consentment ("private copy").^[3]

References

1. ^ Entrevista a David Bravo at Spanish Wikinews (Spanish)
2. ^ [1] (Spanish)
3. ^ Copia este libro, de David Bravo, en PDF

External links

• David Bravo's blog (Spanish)
• Copy of "Copia este libro" in pdf (Spanish)
• ¡Copiad, malditos! - David Bravo - ENTREVISTA (2011) (Spanish)
• Intellectual Propierty Law (Spanish)

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Name	Bravo Bueno, David
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Date of birth	February 20, 1978
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