[A2k] Broadcasting decision adopted @ WIPO General Assembly

[Thiru Balasubramaniam]

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      Broadcasting decision adopted @ WIPO General Assembly

At 11:30 AM (Geneva time) today, the WIPO General Assembly adopted the
following text by consensus:






    WIPO General Assembly, 2006
    September 30, 2006

    ITEM 10: PROTECTION OF BROADCASTING ORGANIZATIONS

    Draft Decision

    Outcome from the informal consultations, September 27-30, 2006,

    Prepared by the Chairman of the SCCR

    1. The General Assembly approves the convening of the Diplomatic
    Conference on the Protection of the Rights of Broadcasting
    Organizations under the conditions set out in paragraph 4 below from
    November 19 to December 7, 2007, in Geneva. The objective of this
    Conference is to negotiate and conclude a WIPO treaty on the
    protection of broadcasting organizations, including cablecasting
    organizations. The scope of the treaty will be confined to the
    protection of broadcasting and cablecasting organizations in the
    traditional sense.

    2. The Revised Draft Basic Proposal (Document SCCR/15/2) will
    constitute the Basic Proposal with the understanding that all Member
    States may make proposals at the Diplomatic Conference.

    3. The meeting of a preparatory committee will be convened for June
    2007 to prepare the necessary modalities of the Diplomatic
    Conference. The preparatory committee will consider the draft rules
    of procedure to be presented for adoption to the Diplomatic
    Conference, the lists of States, as well as intergovernmental and
    non-governmental organizations to be invited to participate in the
    conference, as well as other necessary organizational matters.

    4. Two special sessions of the Standing Committee on Copyright and
    Related Rights to clarify the outstanding issues will be convened,
    the first one in January 2007, and the second one in June 2007 in
    conjunction with the meeting of the preparatory committee. It is
    understood that the sessions of the SCCR should aim to agree and
    finalize, on a signal-based approach, the objectives, specific scope
    and object of protection with a view to submitting to the Diplomatic
    Conference a revised basic proposal, which will amend the agreed
    relevant parts of the Revised Draft Basic Proposal referred to in
    Paragraph 2. The Diplomatic Conference will be convened if such
    agreement is achieved. If no such agreement is achieved, all further
    discussions will be based on Document SCCR/15/2.

    5. The WIPO Secretariat will organize, in cooperation with the
    Member States concerned, and at the request of Member States,
    consultations and information meetings on the matters of the
    Diplomatic Conference. The meetings will be hosted by the inviting
    Member States.

    6. The General Assembly is invited to approve the convening of the
    Diplomatic Conference on the Protection of the Rights of
    Broadcasting Organizations, from November 19 to December 7, 2007,
    and its preparatory arrangements as recommended by the fifteenth
    session of the SCCR and as amended above.


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