[A2k] What happend to Broadcasting treaty?

[Sina Amoor Pour]

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Thanks everyone for the information. I'm on track again.

//Sina

On 7/10/07, Manon Ress <manon.ress@keionline.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Sina,
>
> Here's a link and our statement.  The WBT is not technically "dead" and is
> still on the SCCR agenda (as is the database treaty proposal) but it is
> unlikely to be revived to the point of scheduling a diplomatic conference
> soon (or at least at the next Fall 07 General Assembly).  However, there's
> possibilities that it might be proposed again maybe under another form (a
> narrow protocol?) or in another forum.  Bottom line:  unlikely to move
> forward  at this point but not dead forever IMHO....
>
>
> http://www.keionline.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=93&Itemid=1
> Today the WIPO SCCR decided against scheduling a diplomatic conference to
> create a new treaty on broadcasting, and set a high bar for doing so.
> Technically, the subject of the Broadcasting Treaty will continue to be on
> the agenda of the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights,
> but with a fairly tough hurdle before it can move to a diplomatic conference
> --  after there is agreement on the objectives, scope and object of
> protection, topics for which there is no agreement in sight.
>
> "The negotiation over the broadcast treaty has mirrored and sometimes
> driven the larger changes in the culture at WIPO.  When the negotiations
> began, it was simply about responding to demands from a powerful right-owner
> group -- the broadcasters, for expanded commercial rights.  As the
> discussions continued, civil society NGOs criticized the treaty, for its
> potential harm to the Internet.  Several country delegations began to ask
> deeper questions about the rationale for the treaty, and examined ways to
> limiting the scope and nature of the treaty.  In the end, the broadcasters
> demanded too much, and made too few concessions, for the treaty to move
> forward.   Delegates at WIPO were no longer willing to ignore issues of
> access to knowledge, or the control of anticompetitive practices.
>
> "Next, there has to be a change of conversation at the WIPO SCCR.  Chile
> has proposed a work program on limitations and exceptions for the blind,
> educators and librarians, and there will be other topics presented as well.
> India called for a new focus on the socially important issues such as access
> to knowledge and education.  This will be the way forward, at the SCCR, if
> things go well."
>
> Said KEI Director James Love ( james.love@keionline.orgThis e-mail address
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> Last Updated ( Friday, 22 June 2007 )
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> On Jul 10, 2007, at 4:58 AM, Sina Amoor Pour wrote:
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> Hello everyone,
>
> I have not followed the developments on the broadcasting treaty so well
> lately. Last time I heard it had died. I'm just wondering, did it really
> die
> or did it not? If not, what happens now?
>
> //Sina
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