Bachelor of Laws. Master’s Degree in Intellectual Property Law.
As attorney-partner of LEHCAB, Ricardo has defended the interests of the most relevant holders and users of intellectual property rights such as, inter alia, Movistar+, Indra Sistemas, the International Olympic Committee, Calabuch, and well-known authors, actors, publishers, record labels, and audiovisual producers. He has also worked in conjunction with various Spanish and international management organisations (incorporated in the EU and the United States).
He has also participated in a number of regulatory procedures and negotiations and has successfully handled some of the most important judicial proceedings from the past few decades in relation to intellectual property, both in Spain and internationally.
In addition to being a managing partner at LEHCAB, he heads up the Institute for the Protection of Rights in the Digital Environment, which provides counselling and protection services relating to works and performances protected on the Internet for some of the most important right holders in the world.
Before founding LEHCAB, which he has been managing since 2009, he practised law at several firms as a specialist in procedural law and held significant responsibilities, such as Director of Instituto Autor, and was responsible for developing the first intellectual property case law database.
MAIN PUBLICATIONS:
BOOKS
1. Propiedad Intelectual, Doctrina y Jurisprudencia.
Tirant lo blanch, 2009 (reprinted in 2013).
Coordinator: M.ª Asunción Esteve Pardo.
Author of the following chapters:
- Régimen jurídico de las Entidades de Gestión (Legal Framework of Management Organisations).
- Las Entidades de Gestión en España (Management Organisations in Spain).
- La Comisión de Propiedad Intelectual (Intellectual Property Commission).
2. Propiedad Intelectual – Practicum 2016.
Thomson Reuters / Aranzadi, 2016.
Coordinator: Adriana Moscoso del Prado Hernández.
Author of the following chapters:
- Derechos patrimoniales (Exploitation rights).
- Derecho de comunicación pública (Right to public communication).
- Derechos de artistas intérpretes o ejecutantes (Rights for performers).
- Derechos de productores de fonogramas (Rights for phonogram producers).
- Derechos de productores de grabaciones audiovisuals (Rights for audiovisual recording producers).
- Derechos de entidades de radiodifusión (Rights for broadcasting entities).
- Derechos de fabricantes de bases de datos (Rights for makers of databases).
- Meras fotografías (Simple photographs).
- Obras inéditas en dominio público (Unpublished works in the public domain).
- Obras no protegidas (Unprotected works).
- Responsabilidad de los intermediarios de internet (Liability of internet intermediaries).
3. Manual de buenas prácticas para la persecución de los delitos contra la Propiedad Intelectual.
Aladda / Ministry of Culture and Sports. Expected publication date: 2020.
Coordinator: Fernando Carbajo Cascón.
Author of the following chapters:
- Evolución de la jurisprudencia (Development of case law).
- Calificaciónjurídica de los links (Legal classification of links).
4. Estrategia de la regulación en materia audiovisual y cultural.
Department of Culture and Cultural Heritage, Government of the Canary Islands. 2020.
Coordinator: Raúl Domingo de Blas.
Author of the following chapters:
- Examen de medidas activas en materia de infracción de derechos de propiedad intelectual: posibilidades competenciales (Study of active measures relating to intellectual property right infringement: possibilities of competence).
- Autoridades independientes de regulación en el audiovisual: modelos nacionales y regionales; examen del mercado y actividad de la administración; competencias y modelo organizativo; aplicación y desarrollo de la nueva directiva de Servicios de Comunicación Audiovisual (Independent regulatory authorities in the audiovisual field: national and regional models; study of the market and activity of the administration; competence and organisational model; application and development of the new Audiovisual Communication Services directive).
5. Propiedad Intelectual– Practicum 2020.
Thomson Reuters / Aranzadi, 2020.
Coordinator: Rosa María de Couto Gálvez.
Author of the following chapters:
- Derechos patrimoniales (Exploitation rights).
- Derecho de comunicación pública (Right to public communication).
- Derechos de artistas intérpretes o ejecutantes (Rights for performers).
- Derechos de productores de fonogramas (Rights for phonogram producers).
- Derechos de productores de grabaciones audiovisuals (Rights for audiovisual recording producers).
- Derechos de entidades de radiodifusión (Rights for broadcasting entities).
- Derechos de fabricantes de bases de datos (Rights for makers of databases).
- Meras fotografías (Simple photographs).
- Obras inéditas en dominio público (Unpublished works in the public domain).
- Obras no protegidas (Unprotected works).
- Responsabilidad de los intermediarios de internet (Liability of internet intermediaries).
6. Las obligaciones de financiación y reserva de emisión de obras europeas en la Ley General de Comunicación Audiovisual.
Cuadernos Jurídicos / Instituto de Derecho de Autor. 2020.
7.La definición de facultades de licenciante y licenciatario de software en los desarrollos realizados por encargo (Anuario de Propiedad Intelectual).
Tirant Lo Blanch, 2021.
PAPERS (SELECTION)
National and European legislative and case law reviews in relation to intellectual property. Published in the Boletín del Instituto de Derecho de Author (Copyright Institute Digest) between 2007 and 2009.
El equilibrio entre derechos fundamentales en la identificación de usuarios infractores de derechos de propiedad intelectual (Balance between fundamental rights in the identification of infringing users of intellectual property rights). Boletín del Instituto de Derecho de Autor, no. 5, 2008.
La reversión de la propiedad intelectual en el Siglo XXI. Apuntes en torno a su peculiar situación transitoria (The reversal of intellectual property in 21st century. Notes on its peculiar transient situation). RDE, no. 1, 2010.
Anónimo, neutral, gratuito. Una reflexión sobre los dogmas de internet (Anonymous, neutral, free. A reflection on internet dogmas). Claves magazine (Prisa Group), no. 255, 2017.
La cesión del derecho de transformación (asunto Kukuxumusu) (Assignment of the transformation right (Kukuxumusu case).Law&Trends, 2017.
La regulación de cuotas de pantalla y la obligación de financiación de obra europea de los prestadores audiovisuales (The regulation of screen quotas and the European work funding obligation of audiovisual providers). Instituto Autor, 2020 (expected).
PARTICIPATION IN SCIENTIFIC AND PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:
– Founding partner of the Asociación Española de Derecho del Entretenimiento (DENAE) (Spanish Association of Entertainment Law).
– Member of the Board of Directors (Secretary) and President of the Editorial Council of DENAE between 2009 and 2014, where he founded the Revista de Derecho del Entretenimiento (Entertainment Law magazine).
– Member of ALADDA (Spanish offshoot of ALAI).
– Member of the Asociación Española para la Defensa de la Competencia (AEDC).
– Member of the Madrid Bar Association (ICAM).
– Professor in a number of master’s programs in his speciality (among others, the master’s program in Intellectual Property Law of the following universities: ICADE, Carlos III, Universidad Autónoma of Madrid, and Rey Juan Carlos / Pons; and the master’s program in Cultural Management of Universidad Carlos III), as well as an external tutor –practicum– in the Master’s in the Legal Profession of the UNIR).
– Guest conference lecturer at various institutions (among others, WIPO, Ministry of Culture, Pons Foundation, ALADDA, DENAE, Business Institute, FIDE, ICAM and several universities).