[A2k] Arm twisting time

[James Love]

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From: James Packard Love <james.love@cptech.org>
Date: September 13, 2006 10:22:30 AM EDT
To: james.love@cptech.org
Subject: [WIPO Casting Treaty] Arm twisting time

We are now at 4pm on the last of a three day meeting. Jukka Liedes is
insisting upon a three page document, "Draft conclusions of the
SCCR," which was handed out before lunch. It calls for a May/July
diplomatic conference in Geneva. He wants a preparatory committee to
meet in December 2006, with uncertain duties, and the authority to
prepare a new "basic proposal" by February 28, 2007, followed by
regional consolations.

The treaty is supposed to "provide protection fro the signals of the
broadcasting and cablecasting organizations without affecting or
addressing the rights on content carried by the signal." But
paradoxically, it calls for a minimum 20 year term of protection, and
a set of exclusive rights, including fixation, retransmission and
post-fixation "downstream" rights, as well as WCT type TPM language.
Verbally, Jukkas has not given up on getting webcasting in the
treaty, and many see it already in the current draft, in the various
parts of Articles 5 and 9.

There will be new definitions, a new preamble, and a reordering of
sections.

Lots of countries don't like his proposal. India is taking a hard
line. But Jukka and the WIPO Secretariat staff is bound and
determined to pound on delegates to go along.

It is not at all obvious how this meeting will end today.

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Posted by James Packard Love to WIPO Casting Treaty at 9/13/2006
07:21:00 AM

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