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WIPO Talks May Portend Sweeping Broacast-Based Copyright

Posted by timothy on from the by-humming-this-tune-you-accept-our-license dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It seems the nasty 'Broadcast Treaty' is rearing its head again in the WIPO talks. This would give a new copyright to what is uncopyrighted or out of copyright material to anyone who broadcasts the material. It essentially re-ups the copyright — not to the original copyright holder, but to the broadcaster, without any contract to the original holder."

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  1. I am confused by tqft · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I was trying to think of a situation in which this makes sense but couldn't.
    Scenario:
    Download "With The Marines At Tarawa" from the Internet Archive.
    Broadcast or stream over the internet. Gain broadcast rights so no-one else can do it.
    How does this promote any art or science?
    What am I missing?

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  2. Is that really what it says ? by belthize · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I drifted through the various referenced links and don't really see where they came to that conclusion. The links appear to be mostly self referential to other TechDirt articles. I did scan through what I took to be the relevant WIPO section but I didn't get what they got out of it, admittedly I didn't get much out of it at all.

    I certainly agree with the point that this would be a Bad Thing(TM).