David Bravo Bueno

David Bravo Bueno (born 20 February 1978) is a Spanish lawyer specialized in intellectual property rights. He is well known for his strong defense of the right to make a private copy of copyrighted works, as it is explicitly allowed by the Spanish legislation. He is often requested to participate in TV debates about so-called piracy and p2p file sharing.

David Bravo Bueno
Member of the Congress of Deputies
In office 13 January 2016 – 3 May 2016
Constituency	Almería
Personal details
Born	David Bravo Bueno (1978-02-20) 20 February 1978 (age 47) Sevilla, Spain
Political party	Podemos

Private copy

Bravo argues that downloading files is undoubtedly legal and uploading, although more controversial, is surely not a crime, within the current Spanish legislation.^[1] His views are grounded mainly on the Intellectual Propierty Law (1996), Article 31, 2nd Chapter, "Reproduction without authorization" and the Penal Code, Article 270.^[2] The SGAE (General Association of Authors and Editors) strongly disagrees with Bravo and the Spanish government often makes campaigns backing SGAE's views on the matter^{[citation needed]}.

Books

• Copia este libro (Copy this book): among many other issues, Bravo discusses how the current Spanish legislation allows the right to copy copyrighted works without the author's consent ("private copy").^[3]