[A2k] IFLA and EBLIDA joint Position on the Draft Broadcast Treaty SCCR-15, 11-13 Sept 2006

[Barbara Stratton]

Dear all

The joint statement by IFLA and /EBLIDA at SCCR/15 follows below.  It seems=
 no spoken interventions have been made or are likely to be made by NGOs at=
 this meeting.

Barbara

Barbara Stratton
Senior Adviser, Copyright at CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Librarians a=
nd Information Professionals
Member, Copyright and other Legal Matters Committee Executive Board, IFLA: =
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions

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IFLA
International Federation of Library Associations

EBLIDA
European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations.


Position of libraries to the Draft Broadcasting Treaty. SCCR 15 11-13 Septe=
mber 2006


The principal position of IFLA and EBLIDA to the Draft Broadcasting Treaty =
is that the objective of the treaty should be restricted to the protection =
of the broadcasted signal in order to prevent signal theft. We fear that th=
e present Draft Basic Proposal will give the broadcasting organisations a d=
e facto control over the broadcasted content.

The draft Treaty gives rise to many concerns. We have voiced these at previ=
ous meetings. Here we will restrict ourselves to TPMs.

We are concerned that the introduction of TPMs will prevent libraries from =
making the content available to patrons within the limits of accepted excep=
tions and limitations..

We are even more concerned that TPMs will endanger the possibility for libr=
aries to preserve radio and television broadcasts because they prevent the =
reproductions that are necessary for preservation.

At the May meting of this committee the Delegation of the European Union cl=
aimed that the provisions of the Information Society Directive represented =
a solution to this problem. This is also stated in the document SCCR/15/5. =
(p.3.)

So far TPMs have not been implemented on broadcasts, but the experience of =
Sound Archives is that the procedures prescribed by the Information Society=
 Directive are too complicated and costly to be of any practical value. The=
y are simply not compatible with modern cost effective library management. =
It is necessary to find other solutions if future TPM protected radio and t=
elevision programmes are to be preserved for posterity.


For further information please contact

IFLA: Harald von Hielmcrone
e-mail: hvh AT statsbiblioteket DOT dk

EBLIDA: Andrew Cranfield
e-mail: cranfield AT debibliotheken DOT nl