The following communication is a dissertation on the connected rights of author and rights in the Colombo-Ecuadorian legislation, which is developed in five thematic axes. In the first place a conceptualization of the intellectual property, establishing its distinguishing components and characteristics between the first branch the right of author, and the second branch, the industrial property. The second a referring theoretician about the subject, rights of author establishing of tangential way its origin, evolution and development. The third a legislative parallel between the Ecuadorian and Colombian normatividad, analyzing in first order the two constitutions of the States and their legislations. The fourth thematic axis, a comparative analysis of the prerogatives, as they are it the moral and patrimonial rights. And the last thematic axis, the mechanisms of protection in Colombia and Ecuador.