Evolución histórica del Derecho de Autor en América Latina

Abstract

Limited scholarship on history of copyright in Latin America has cemented distorted images about its evolution in the region, from those that ignore its peculiarities to those that deny any regional tradition on protecting creators. This article confronts such kind of misunderstandings by reviewing the evolution of copyright in Latin America from the time of its countries' independence, passing by the development of the Inter-American copyright system, until the recent acceding by countries to leading international instruments on the matter.