[Ecommerce] June 18 Ecom Roundtable re UNCITRAL econtract and WIPO's Broadcasters' treaty

[Manon Anne Ress]

Public Ecommerce Roundtable on June 18, 2003

Thanks to Miriam Nisbet the Ecommerce Roundtable on June 18, 2003, from 
2-4pm will be held at:

American Library Association
1301 Pennsylvania Ave. NW - #403
Washington, D.C. 20004-1701
Voice:  202-628-8410, x. 202,
or 800-941-8478, x. 202
Fax:     202-628-8419
e-mail:  mnisbet@alawash.org
http://www.ala.org/washoff

1. Update on the UNCITRAL electronic contract formation project with 
members of the US Delegation Harold Burman, Tom Smedinghoff, Henry 
Gabriel and possibly Bill Luddy. Main issues are whether consumers will 
be excluded in some fashion and whether the IP exclusion will stay. 
There's also question on whether the scope of the convention is going to 
expand.
See Working Group IV (E-commerce) met for 41st session, 5-9 May 2003, 
New York.  Agenda and more at:  http://www.uncitral.org/en-index.htm

2. Update on WIPO Broadcasters' rights Treaty (Marla Poor, LOC). 
Broadcasters want rights to protect themselves from signal piracy. There 
are many issues such as ISPs' liability, applicable law in international 
infringements, resale rights, technological measures and questions such 
as whether the treaty is going to grant broadcasters additional economic 
rights interfering with existing rights such as distribution rights? 
Wipo's meeting on this is June  23-27, 2003. Database treaty is also on 
the agenda.
See:
http://www.wipo.org/news/en/index.html?wipo_content_frame=/news/en/conferences.
html
The US Revised proposal is under the June 23-27 meeting
The US "position" can be found in the WIPO report paragraph 19 of last 
November meeting
http://www.wipo.int/copyright/en/index.html
-- 
Manon Anne Ress
Consumer Project on Technology
www.cptech.org
PO Box 19367, Washington, DC 20036
manon.ress@cptech.org, voice: 1.202.387.8030, fax: 1.202.234.5176