Panama, August 14, 2025 - Today's seminar "Tools for the Protection of Copyright and Related Rights Owners in the Age of Artificial Intelligence" was launched and was addressed by experts in this area. The goal is to address emerging legal issues in a constantly evolving technological environment.

Maibys Chen, national director of copyright at the Ministry of Culture, said that, in the age of artificial intelligence, protecting human creativity is a right and a duty that honors the soul of knowledge and that this seminar is organized with the aim of understanding, analyzing and anticipates challenges and opportunities that the age of artificial intelligence entails and especially its implications for our authors, artists and rights holders.

"Without an opportunity to recur, emerging technologies have revolutionized how they create, gain access, perceive, consume and share intellectual creations, marking an earlier and later in mankind, changing how they produce, and this is reflected in vital cultural, social and economic repercussions," Chen explained.

It was up to Claudio Ossa Rojas, a Conservator of the Intellectual Property Register and head of the Intellectual Rights department of the Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Heritage of the Government of Chile, to open the seminar with the theme "Considerations of productions made with IA. Experience with the Civil Property Registry of Chile."

The event takes place in co-ordination with the Panamanian Chamber of Books and will have an area of analysis and training for professionals from the legal, creative and cultural fields, focused this year on challenges that artificial intelligence challenges with intellectual property.

Some of these issues have been put forward: the evolutionary trends of copyright vis-à-vis the IA and quantum universe, considerations of production with artificial intelligence and experience with the Chilean Intellectual Property Register and the need for an IA regulation to guarantee respect for the right of authors of written works: from a global perspective and others.

The seminar ends with the paper by Luis Vergara, presiding judge of the third Supreme Court of Justice of the First Judicial District of Panama with the theme "The challenges of the IA and its impact on the procedural and evidentiary aspects of copyright proceedings.