Technological Protection Measure Safe Harbors And Making Available Rights On Mexican Copyright Law

Technological advancements have reshaped our understanding of digital copyright rights and its relation with human rights. There has been always a need to ponder different interests in relation with the human right of access to information, the neutrality of the web interconnecting virtual space, freedom of speech and the protection granted to authors, producers and performers. Based on the web's neutrality paradigm, online activities have usually followed different rules to those set forth in connection with offline activities.

Mexico signed the United States-MexicoCanada Agreement ("USMCA"). Every party undertook several obligations related to copyright, among others, technological protection measures, safe harbors, rights management information, criminal and civil enforcement. As such, on July 1st, 2020, new amendments to the Mexican Copyright Law and to the Mexican Criminal Code were approved. Essentially, the amendments focused on the following: