[Ecommerce] Tech daily on Casters' treaty

[Jeff Williams]

Manon and all,

  Jamies counter argument is a fairly good one.  But better yet how does
WIPO intend or even expect such a set or provisions to be enforced
or policed?

Manon Ress wrote:

>       11-07-2003
>
>       Intellectual Property:
>
> A committee of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) this
> week agreed to draft a treaty on webcasting, going forward in the face of
> criticism that it would limit the use of works freely available to the
> public. The decision was made Thursday at a Geneva meeting of the WIPO
> Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights. News.com reports that
> the treaty was proposed by the United States and is backed by Yahoo, the
> Digital Media Association and other U.S. webcasters. It aims to extend to
> webcasters the same level of international protection for intellectual
> property that television and radio broadcasters receive. James Love,
> director of the Consumer Project on Technology, criticized the treaty
> because, for instance, it would require copies of films that are not
> copyrighted to be made from originals held by movie companies rather than
> from broadcasts.
>
> National Journal's Technology Daily
>
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