Understanding the WIPO Broadcast Treaty

Vikingod · Oct 31, 2006, 01:09 AM

Source: ars technica
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Your rights are in danger.

That's the message that activist groups have been spreading as the World Intellectual Property Organization moves tortoise-like towards the completion of a new broadcasting treaty that could curtail the ways that consumers use media and could create a broad new intellectual property right over electromagnetic transmissions that could last for 50 years.

That's a scary story, but it's not the complete one. WIPO has been working on this treaty for almost a decade, but thanks to pressure from certain countries and from the activist groups who have worked tirelessly to alter a treaty that the public cared little about, significant new changes were made in the last few weeks that will affect the ultimate shape of the treaty.

Oct 31, 2006, 01:09 AM	#1
Vikingod Int'l Fish Liaison Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: By the light of lamp I sit and type... Posts: 16,197 Rep Power: 112 System Specs	Understanding the WIPO Broadcast Treaty Source: ars technica _________ Your rights are in danger. That's the message that activist groups have been spreading as the World Intellectual Property Organization moves tortoise-like towards the completion of a new broadcasting treaty that could curtail the ways that consumers use media and could create a broad new intellectual property right over electromagnetic transmissions that could last for 50 years. That's a scary story, but it's not the complete one. WIPO has been working on this treaty for almost a decade, but thanks to pressure from certain countries and from the activist groups who have worked tirelessly to alter a treaty that the public cared little about, significant new changes were made in the last few weeks that will affect the ultimate shape of the treaty.