"Double taxation criticized"

António Andrade and Tiago Bessa, Intellectual Property managing associate and TMT Senior Associate respectively, spoke to the daily newspaper Diário Económico on the new technologies double taxation related to the Private Copy Law.

The lawyers state that "the Private Copy Law was approved in 1998 and its contents exclude digital equipment. The proposed revision aims to adapt the content of the law to the technology evolution". However, as most of the specialists do, António Andrade and Tiago Bessa criticize this double taxation.