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WIPO Broadcast Treaty Creates New Legal Rights for Broadcasters

Posted by michael on from the suck-it-up-peons dept.

An anonymous reader writes "WIPO (The World Intellectual Property Organization) created by the UN is now creating a new copyright for 'broadcast transmissions' giving broadcasters ownership of the content that they broadcast (even if the program being broadcast is in the public domain). IP Justice has created a Top 10 List of reasons to reject this proposal and has published a detailed report that dissects the proposal from a civil liberties and freedom of expression point of view." See our previous story for more information.

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  1. What if they don't own it by Eudial · · Score: 5, Funny

    *off to start broadcasting illegal copies of stuff and then re-download it as the owner of those things*

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    GAAH! MY PRINTER IS ON FIRE!!! PUT IT OUT! PUT IT OUT!
  2. Fine by me... by GillBates0 · · Score: 4, Funny
    giving broadcasters ownership of the content that they broadcast (even if the program being broadcast is in the public domain)

    as long as they pay me royalty for tresspassing my property with their airwaves without my consent.

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    An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
  3. reason.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    11. When I broadcast a fart, I don't want to be legally responsible for damage it does.

  4. Re:WPDO by Sponge+Bath · · Score: 5, Funny

    How about World Organization for Open and Free Software.
    WOOF!

  5. Start stockpiling comms gear, folks.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    and maybe guns too. Comms gear and guns. Lots of guns.

    This is going to get ugly. A free society needs free information, as Popper elucidated. The neofascists who want control over information flow MUST be stopped. By whatever means necessary, including flaming microwave pulse death.