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'Webcaster's Right' in WIPO Treaty

Posted by Zonk on from the power-to-the-casters dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Andy Oram examines the new concept of a 'webcaster's right' that major Web portals are trying to introduce through a World Intellectual Property Organization treaty. The treaty would allow Web sites to control the dissemination of content they put up. Using the failed database protection laws as an example, and in the context of the carrier's desire to create a tiered Internet, Andy analyzes this new threat to the public domain."

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  1. Pisty Frost by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I FAIL IT

  2. What the? by cammoblammo · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I come to read the normal diatribe, and I get greeted with nothing.

    Slashdot heroism doesn't feel that good. Maybe I'll go off and RTFA.

    Oh yeah, FRIST POST!!

    --

    Cogito, ergo sig.

  3. mod down by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    long time FreteBSD teeth 1nto when