摘要:The Andean Community is a custom union between four Latin American countries seeking for comprehensive development especially in economics. As part of this integration, the countries establish that the regulation of intellectual property law will be enacted jointly. Therefore, the Andean Commission enacts the law regarding copyright and neighboring rights. This law is implemented and executed directly in the Andean Community members without the need of an implementation procedure under the national law of the member countries. However, the Andean countries have been negotiating several free trade agreements. These FTAS require the trading party to implement some provisions in the field of copyright law, as in the case of the FTAS negotiated with the United States. The problem arises when the provisions required by the FTA differ from the provisions already set by the Andean Commission, requiring the Andean countries to set stronger levels of copyright protection or to regulate aspects than the Andean community has not regulated. Therefore, this paper will analyze whether the U.S bilateralism is generating or will generate a conflict of laws within the Andean Community copyright regime. If this is the case, solving this conflict of laws may infringe the international obligations that may lead to international responsibility to some member countries.
关键词:Copyright;Andean Community;free trade agreements;conflict of laws.;derechos de autor;Comunidad Andina de Naciones;tratados de libre comercio;conflicto de leyes.