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.

It is reported that copyright is not adequately enforced online in the Dominican Republic. There are concerns about online and signal piracy, including the lack of intellectual property prosecutions by the Specialized Prosecutor's Office against High Technology Crimes and offences.

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

The Dominican Republic has ratified 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 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.

The Dominican Republic has appended the World Trade Organization (WTO) Telecom Reference Paper to its schedule of commitments.

According to Art. 76 of the General Telecommunications law, the Dominican Telecommunications Institute (INDOTEL), the executive authority for the supervision and administration of services in the telecommunications sector, is independent from the government in the decision-making process.

It is reported that public procurement in the Dominican Republic is not carried out in a transparent manner and that corruption is a problem.

The Dominican Republic is not a party to the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA). However, the country has been an observer of the WTO GPA since 2022.

Law No. 16-95 on Foreign Investment in the Dominican Republic permits full foreign ownership (100%) across all sectors relevant to digital trade.

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.

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).