World Copyright Treaty Coming soon

ebresie writes: "According to an article in Info World, the World Intellectual Property Organization indicates that the WIPO Copyright Treaty is scheduled to go into effect in March of 2002. The treaty "is designed to protect the rights of composers, artists, writers, and others whose work is distributed over the Internet or other digital media." It also makes reference of the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty which "specifically protects the digital-media rights of producers and performers of sound recordings"." This is not a "new" treaty; rather it's the old one, which says much the same thing as the DMCA and was used to justify the passage of the DMCA. Now the same provisions will be in effect across many countries.

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Did you know?

[larsu]

This particular legislation was proposed by the Appropriate Standards Subcommitee of the World Intellectual Property Organization, also know as

ASS-WIPO

Re:Oh God, I can hear it now:

[alen]

Chained to a stove? When I get married I plan to keep mine locked in a box like the gimp from pulp fiction. I'll just let her out for sex and a bath once in a while.

Re:Oh God, I can hear it now:

[Sunnan]

You won't get married.
You might get to be somebody's bitch. We'll see... and you'll starve in your box.