David Bravo Bueno

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 Spanish legislation. He is often requested to participate in TV debates about so-called piracy and p2p file sharing.

David Bravo Bueno
Member of the Congress of Deputies
In office 13 January 2016 – 3 May 2016
Constituency	Almería
Personal details
Born	David Bravo Bueno (1978-02-20) 20 February 1978 Sevilla, Spain
Political party	Podemos

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 consent ("private copy").[3]

References

1. Entrevista a David Bravo at Spanish Wikinews (in Spanish)
2. (in Spanish)
3. "Copia este libro, de David Bravo, en PDF". Archived from the original on 2006-03-28. Retrieved 2006-03-26.

External links

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