New IP law to ‘liberalize’ right to personal use, not remove it –IPOPHL
Marc Jayson Cayabyab, GMA News
February 20, 2013

Recent amendments to the Intellectual Property (IP) Rights Law would actually allow Filipinos to bring home more copyrighted materials from abroad instead of preventing it, a lawyer from the IP Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) said, allaying fears that stemmed from a blogger’s criticism of the measure last week.

In an interview on GMA News’ “News To Go” on Wednesday, IP rights lawyer Atty. Louie Calvario said the contested deletion of the “personal use provision” basically Filipinos to bring home any number of copyrighted materials as they want, so long as these are “legally bought” and not pirated.

According to Section 190 of the unrevised Republic Act 8293, there is no need to seek permission from the copyright owner as long as the material is only for personal use, meaning it “is not for sale but for the use only of any religious, charitable, or educational society or institution duly incorporated or registered, or is for the encouragement of the fine arts, or for any state school, college, university, or free public library in the Philippines.”

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