The following publication, The Consumer & Copyright, is an informational booklet regarding what is and what isn’t allowed, according to the copyright system. It aims to reveal permitted, yet unknown, actions that can be beneficial to society as a whole.

Edited in 2008, this booklet is the result of a partnership between Idec and the Center of Technology and Society (CTS) from the Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) Law School in Rio de Janeiro with financing from the Open Society Institute (OSI).

Although the booklet is written in Portuguese, the content is licensed via a Creative Commons license so anyone is free to translate the material. We encourage people to translate it and distribute booklets in English, Spanish, German, and every other language.