[Ecommerce] Philippine broadcast industry lobbying on WIPO broadcast treaty

[James Love]

http://www.mb.com.ph/news.php?art=42001&sect=1&fname=MN03110742001h.txt

TAGAYTAY CITY

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The KBP asked the President to help them reconcile their position with
that of the government in the protocol involving broadcasters' rights
now being negotiated in the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

The President immediately asked National Telecommunications Commission
(NTC) Chairman Armi Jane Borje to discuss the matter with the KBP "so we
can have a consensus-building exercise as well, like (what) the House is
undergoing now."

Acting on the concern of the KBP on the proliferation of low-powered
radio stations, she also instructed Borje to temporarily stop the
issuance of licenses to operate low-power stations pending the approval
of rules and regulations governing them.

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--
James Love, Director, Consumer Project on Technology
http://www.cptech.org, mailto:james.love@cptech.org
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