WIPO Broadcast Treaty Creates New Legal Rights for Broadcasters

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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Re:Distributing freely?

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I guess it's time to go into the ISP business. Owning all the contents of the internet isn't such a bad business plan, after all.