[A2k] Blogzilla: The Broadcasting Treaty is dead!

[Manon Ress]

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Friday, June 22, 2007
The Broadcasting Treaty is dead!

Jamie Love reported earlier this evening that WIPO is finally set to
kill the Broadcasting Treaty. Now IPWatch has confirmed the last
rites will be read tomorrow morning at the Standing Committee on
Copyright and Related Rights.

After a decade of negotiations, civil society and developing world
WIPO members have finally managed to squash this assault on access to
knowledge. Break open the Genevoise sparkling wine!

This is an astonishing confirmation that the IP maximalists reached
their high watermark with WIPO's 1996 "Internet" treaties. Andrew
Adams and I just sent off a paper this afternoon on the ten lost
years these treaties caused for creativity. At long last,
"intellectual property" is being treated as a means to an end rather
than a golden bull to be worshipped in its own right.

Congratulations to Jamie, Manon, Thiru, EDRI, EFF, IP Justice, EIFL
and all of their Civil Society Coalition colleagues for this U-turn
at the marbled high temple of intellectual property, WIPO's palatial
headquarters in Geneva.

UPDATE: Has crazed SCCR chairman Jukka Liedes manage to bring this
zombie treaty back from the dead? More from Jamie Love on a "surreal"
turn of events:

     Jukka Liedes and Michael Keplinger are both pushing for a dipcom
in 2008, despite the failure this week to find agreement on much of
anything. We come back at 2pm, after having only about 10 minutes or
so in open meeting, the 1st open meeting since Tuesday.

Posted by Ian Brown at 12:06 AM



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