A basic legal framework on intermediary liability beyond copyright infringement is absent in the Dominican Republic's law and jurisprudence.

Art. 11.2 of the General Regulation of the Telephone Service stipulates that service providers are under an obligation to request, record, and verify the applicant’s general particulars in order to substantiate their capacity and eligibility to enter into a service contract; for the purposes of this Regulation, telephone service denotes a national or international telecommunications service intended for the transmission of voice, whether fixed or mobile, irrespective of the technology or modality employed in its provision. Should the information supplied by the user prove to be inaccurate, the provider is required to refuse the formation of the contract and to deny the applicant access to the telephone service.

It is reported that copyright infringement in the Dominican Republic, particularly through signal piracy, online distribution, and web‑based streaming, is widespread and remains insufficiently addressed by the government. Software piracy alone is estimated at approximately 75%.

The Dominican Republic has adopted the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Copyright Treaty.

The Dominican Republic has adopted the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Performances and Phonograms Treaty.

Law No. 20-00 provides a framework for effective protection of trade secrets. Chapters I and II of Title VI include a definition and conditions to protect a secret, what constitutes unfair competition related to trade secrets, what are the unfair means of access to a trade secret, information for sales authorisation and the actions that may be brought against this act of unfair competition.

There is an obligation for passive infrastructure sharing in the country to deliver telecom services to end users. It is practised both in the mobile and fixed sectors based on commercial agreements. According to Art. 5 of the Infrastructure Sharing Regulation, passive infrastructure providers shall share passive infrastructures or related facilities requested by the requesting providers, provided that such sharing is feasible from the technical, security and operational point of view. Such sharing shall be done in a non-discriminatory manner at fair and reasonable prices and conditions. Infrastructure owners shall facilitate access to such infrastructure on equal, transparent and non-discriminatory terms to providers that install or operate public telecommunications networks. Infrastructure sharing is effective in both the mobile and fixed sectors.

The Dominican Republic does not mandate functional separation for operators with significant market power (SMP) in the telecom market. However, there has been an obligation to separate the accounts since 1998. According to Art. 30.h of the Law No. 153/1998 - General Telecommunications Law, in case a concessionaire provides several public telecommunications services, it must keep separate accounts for each service, in order to enable the control of fair and effective competition.

Chapter V of the General Telecommunications Law addresses concessions and licences. It is reported that a minimum capital requirement must be satisfied in order to obtain a licence; however, no such requirement has been identified in the relevant legal provisions.

Art. 144 of Law 16-92 establishes that the administrators, managers, directors and other persons exercising administrative or management functions must preferably be of Dominican nationality. On the other hand, Art. 135 establishes that at least 80% of the total number of workers of a company must be composed of Dominicans. Art. 136 establishes that the salaries received by the Dominican workers of a company must amount, as a whole, to at least 80% of the value corresponding to the payment of all the personnel. Exempted from the provisions of this article are the salaries received by workers who perform technical, managerial or directorial tasks.

According to Art. 148 of Law No. 20-00, when the applicant or the holder of an industrial property right has its domicile or headquarters outside the Dominican Republic, it must have a representative domiciled in the country who can be notified of all resolutions, correspondence, writings and any other documentation emanating from the National Office for Industrial Property.

The Dominican Republic is a party to the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT).

The Dominican Republic has a copyright regime under the law No. 65-00. However, the exceptions do not follow the fair use or fair dealing model, therefore limiting the lawful use of copyrighted work by others. Arts. 30-44 list the exceptions, which include the reproduction of: news that have the character of mere press information; speeches made in deliberative assemblies or public meetings, works for educational or scientific purposes, among others.

The Dominican Republic is a signatory of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Information Technology Agreement (ITA) of 1996, but is not a signatory of its 2015 expansion (ITA II).