What are the biggest challenges and opportunities for internet regulation from the Brazilian perspective? In this episode, Prof. Sérgio Branco helps us understand developments on fake news legislation, the right to be forgotten and data protection in Brazil. He also shares with us lessons for India on the implementation and enforcement of Brazil’s data protection law, and his thoughts on the future of internet regulation in Brazil. 

Prof. Sérgio Branco is a lawyer, academic, and intellectual property specialist. As an intellectual property specialist from PUC-Rio, Branco has written several books on the topic, including “Memory and Forgetting on the Internet,” “Copyright on the Internet and the Use of Third Parties’ Works,” “The Public Domain in Brazilian Copyright Law – A Work in the Public Domain,” “What is Creative Commons – New Copyright Models in a More Creative World.” Branco is also a co-founder and director of Institute for Technology & Society.

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Editors: Ananya Moncourt, Gopika P

Supported by: Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom