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WIPO Broadcasting Treaty Back On the Table

Posted by Unknown on from the shuffling-slowly-mumbling-eye-pee dept.

c0lo writes with a bit from BoingBoing: "The UN's World Intellectual Property Organization's Broadcasting Treaty is back. This is the treaty that EFF and its colleagues killed five years ago, but Big Content won't let it die. Under the treaty, broadcasters would have rights over the material they transmitted, separate from copyright, meaning that if you recorded something from TV, the Internet, cable or satellite, you'd need to get permission from the creator and the broadcaster to re-use it. And unlike copyright, the 'broadcast right' doesn't expire, so even video that is in the public domain can't be used without permission from the broadcaster."

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  1. Keep trying till they sneak it through? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I hate that governments can just rename a treaty or bill and resubmit it. I mean, with SOPA & PIPA, the people have spoken and stated they do not want this. Why can the government just reintroduce it again a few months later? We shouldn't have to be constantly fighting these battles with our own government.

    1. Re:Keep trying till they sneak it through? by d3ac0n · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Except that this is the UN. Freaking NOBODY voted for these people. Just goes to show you; Nothing is more tyrannical than rule by Bureaucrat.

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      Official Heretic from the "Church of Global Warming". Proven right thanks to whistle blowers. AGW = Flat Earth Theory
  2. Good luck EFF by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Time to support EFF, be that with time or money.

  3. MPAA selects the candidates by tepples · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Except this still gets voted on by the people you elected.

    Who have pledged to support what the movie studios push. Otherwise, they wouldn't have even won the primaries because the movie studios control the news media that help candidates get elected to the U.S. Senate.

  4. Re:Bill of Digital Rights by CanEHdian · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What you need is a Third Political Party in the US, one that champions human-people over corporations. The "R" and "D" denominations have a "What's good for Business, is good for the Country. What's good for the Country, is good for its People" mentality. Everything else is splintered to death. I'd say rally behind the US Pirate Party and enjoy the benefits of help from Pirate Parties International, who is on track to gain observer membership in WIPO.

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    When the copyright term is "forever minus a day", live every day like it's the last.
  5. Re:Bill of Digital Rights by Lucky_Norseman · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Nothing in the Berne Convention prohibits a government from taxing Intellectual Property.
    If Big Content was taxed according to the official **AA value of their properties, they would soon start delivering to public domain.

    Same of course could be applied to the broadcasters with "broadcaster eternal copyright". Tax them until they either release copyrights or go bust.