Global Cyber Copyright Treaty In Force Today

Guinnessy writes: "The Financial Times has a short story on a global copyright treaty that comes into force today, despite controversy over whether it will help or hinder creativity on the internet. You can find an actual copy of the treaty at the World Intellectual Property Organisation."

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Short article

[Perdo]

And obviously biased. Everyone but the few hundred music/movie executives that stand to profit from this are biased. We have passed the DMCA and will ratify this treaty for benifit of a few hundred people.

There are 6 billion people on the planet and hardship caused to less than a thousand does not warrant an international treaty.

If it impacted a million people adversly, it would not warrent a treaty.

CSS ratified and PVR/VCRs criminalized

[4/3PI*R^3]

Read Article 8

Well, this gives the MPAA and the RIAA one more lobbying tool to get their way.
Copyright holders get to choose where and when you get to see their IP.

The good thing about this, is that I'm going to start copyrighting my phone calls. And then I can just use the agreed statment on article 8 that "the mere provision of physical facilities for enabling or making a communication does not in itself amount to communication" as an excuse for not answering my phone.

How the Treaty was bought

[bmasel]

A Tale of Two Babylons

by Jeffrey St. Clair and Alexander Cockburn (10/2/96)

"Last September 12, some 1,500 of Hollywood's most beautiful people mustered at Greenacres, the old Harold Lloyd estate in Beverly Hills, and listened to Barbra Streisand serenade Bill Clinton..."