[Ecommerce] Casters treaty on another list (same problems)

[Manon Ress]

Subject: [d@DCC] The next WIPO treaty
> Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 17:00:58 -0700
> From: "Chris Brand" <Chris_Brand@spectrumsignal.com>
> Reply-To: General Discussion <discuss@digital-copyright.ca>
> To: "General Discussion" <discuss@digital-copyright.ca>
>
> http://www.wipo.int/documents/en/meetings/2004/sccr/pdf/sccr_11_3.pdf
>
> tells us what the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights
> is working on - A Treaty on the Protection of Broadcasting Organisations,
> which they'll be discussing 7-9 June this year.
>
> Guess what ? More exclusive rights are on the table.
>
> Article 9 seems intended to ensure that videotaping broadcasts can only
> be done with the broadcasters permission.
>
> Articles 10 and 12 are the "Making Available" right.
>
> Article 15 sets the term of protection to at least 50 years from the date
> at which the broadcast takes place. Thus we have the same problem here
> that the WPPT treaty gives us for sound recordings - you get 50 years
> from when you create the work, plus a further 50 years from the time
> that you publish (for sound recordings) or broadcast it.
>
> Article 18 is "Legal protection for TPMs" used by broadcasters,
> explicitly including legal remedies against those who manufacture
> or make available any device capable of decrypting or helping to
> decrypt an encrypted program-carrying signal. Very scary.
>
> Article 19 protects Rights Management Information, presumably including
> the USA's broadcast flag.
>
> There's also an interesting (long) paper on DRMs at
> http://www.wipo.int/documents/en/meetings/2003/sccr/pdf/sccr_10_2.pdf
>
> Chris
>
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