The Constitution and Justice Commission (CCJ) of the Chamber of Deputies approved a bill that prohibits people convicted by the Court from earning money through the creation, distribution or communication to the public of intellectual works related to the crime committed. The text having been conclusively processed, it must now be submitted to the Senate for analysis.
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The objective, in practice, is to prevent criminals from profiting from the publication of books, the production of films, series or interviews about their crimes.
The approved text was a substitute by the rapporteur, MP Bia Kicis (PL-DF), for a bill by his supporter Altineu Côrtes (PL-RJ), which provided for changes to the Penal Code. The MP cited as an example the broadcast of films about the murder of Manfred and Marísia von Richthofen, for which their daughter, Suzane von Richthofen, and the Cravinhos brothers were convicted.
The rapporteur inserted the ban into the copyright law, since, for her, “the restriction concerns a limit to the economic exploitation of the intellectual work, and not only an effect of the criminal sanction”, underlined the Câmara Agency.
“It is necessary to strengthen the national legal framework to prevent criminals from profiting from the exploitation of their crimes in intellectual works,” writes Bia Kicis in his opinion.
The project provides that the victim or his heirs will have the right to claim, within the framework of civil proceedings, all sums possibly received by those convicted for works recounting the crime. They can also request compensation for moral damage. Fees, the text adds, may be charged even if other repairs have already been paid for.
The approval of the text was reported by Folha de S. Paulo and confirmed by GLOBO.
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