[A2k] Blogzilla: The Broadcasting Treaty is dead!

[Miriam M. Nisbet]

Great work - thanks to all of you!  Hope that sparkling wine goes down
well.  Mac

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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.

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