Protection of the Intellectual Property of Authors in Peru in Times of Moral Crisis

Abstract

The investigation aims to know the level of copyright infringement, following an administrative procedure at the National Institute for the Defense of Competition and the Protection of Intellectual Property (2012-2016). At the same time, through a fieldwork a questionnaire was applied to undergraduate students of the National University of San Marcos-Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, it identifies the level of knowledge about the intellectual property protection of the author and the perception that they have on academic ethics, the moral and values crisis in the society. The subject is manifested in different areas, particularly in academia, as such, the study shows that Peruvian society suffers a huge moral crisis. A manifestation of it is the infringement of intellectual property, the theft of the creation of others, discouraging creation of the author and affecting their rights. This infringement of the rules of copyright makes Indecopi impose certain types of sanctions, which for the dimension of the problem is still limited.