Copyright in Nohol

Nohol is a country famously known for having officially announced it wouldn't respect international copyright. While this decision was, at first, only applied to informatic intellectual properties, it would later be extended to "all musical, literary, pictural, intellectual works where the authors are either deceased or, if alive, do not receive more than 70% of profits of said works when sold" where the term "authors", according to the UFPR Laws on authors' rights, refer to all persons implied in the process of realization and creation of the work, excluding financing, which, for a movie, would includes all actors, playwriters, director, staff members, etc., but not the producers.

Origin of the Law
Following the Socialist Revolution of 2020-2021, the Parliamentary Union of Syndicats (UPS) has risen as the preeminent party in the country. This party has always defended the rights of artists and artisans in addition to being the party aiming at uniting all Trade Unions. As such, a special status has been made for some artists in Nohol, who are paid by the State under the UNAN (National Union of Noholian Artists) corporation. This special status, in testing in Nohol, has been extended to the entire Union as of January 2023.

As such, the 24th of January 2022 saw the Parliament repeal the Copyright Act of 1988, ignoring copyright related to intellectual works on the Internet. The Parliament would later repeal all kind of copyright, replacing it with its own system: the "Rétribution Monétaire Equitable" (fair monetary remuneration), allowing all artists whose work would be published in Nohol to claim 70% of all benefits generated by it at the condition of coming to Nohol or one of its Embassies to fill their demand to the State Secretary for Authors' Right and Artistic Affairs (dependent on the Ministry of Culture).

Enforcement of the Law
The BROCAE (Bureau for the Regulation of Foreign Cultural and Artistic Works) was created in April 2022 to "analyse foreign online artworks or entertainments, filter the good ones and censor the ones that don't respect the UFPR Policies on Artworks". Using the online platform "Mécène du Peuple" (People's Patron), since April 2022, 20 Millions different musical works, 5000 movies, series and documentary of foreign origin have passed the censor of the BROCAE and have been published for free to the people of the Union (the platform is paid by tax money but is accessible to all, just like TV). Mécène du Peuple has the monopoly for all musical and cinematographic works online in the UFPR.