We would like to thank for the magnificent reception that have had the III International
Conference on Digital Piracy, which have been organized by the Department of
Commercial Law of the University of Alicante, in an initiative framed in the Master in
Intellectual Property and Digital Innovation “Magister Lvcentinvs”, with the special
collaboration of Motion Picture Association, developed on 30 and 31 March 2023 at the
Faculty of Law of the University of Alicante. The conference was inaugurated by Prof. Pilar
Montero García-Noblejas, Director of the Magister Lvcentinvs Master of Intellectual
Property and Digital Innovation of the University of Alicante, Prof.Carolina Blasco Jover,
Vice-Dean of Profesorado of the Faculty of Law of the University of Alicante D. Fernando
Candela, Dean of the Illustrious Provincial College of Lawyers of Alicante, Mrs. Mónica
Dopico Martínez. Advisor to the Motion Picture Association, and closed by Mr. Alberto
Casado Cerviño, Former Vice-President of the European Patent Office (EPO) former Vice-
President of the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM), former Director
General of the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (SPTO) Of Counsel Baylos.
We have had the honor of having specialists of recognized prestige, among which
Mercedes Hernández Villar, Advisory Member and Secretary of the Second Section of the
Intellectual Property Commission of the Ministry of Culture, Mr. Joaquín Delgado Martín.
Magistrate of the National Court, Harrie Temmink. Head of the Service “Intellectual Property
in the Digital World” of the Observatory of Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights of
the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), Mónica Dopico Martínez. Advisor
to Motion Picture Association, Mr. José Luis Gómez Pidal. National Police Inspector,
Carlota Navarrete, General Director of the Coalition of Creators and Industries of Digital
Content, Mr. Juan Fernández Tamames. Lawyer of the Legal Service of Telefónica Spain,
Damián Fuentes Sánchez, consultant of EGEDA, LaLiga and Mediapro Chris Grab, of
Motion Picture Association, Ricardo López Alzaga of Garrigues abogados. As well as with
the collaboration of the Illustrious College of Lawyers of Alicante, the School of Legal
Practice, the CENID, Center of Artificial Intelligence of the Province of Alicante.
In these days, the issues raised by piracy of Intellectual Property rights in the digital field
have been addressed in detail, analyzing the forms of protection of these rights over
intangible goods in the digital world, characterized by the existence of an economy of
platforms, social networks, as well as virtual realities such as the metaverse.