[Ecommerce] FYI: IP Watch on Broadcasting and Webcasting treaty moving forward

[Manon Ress]

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IP Watch Story on "way forward" for diplomatic conference on
broadcasting and webcasting treaty.

Please note the "euphemism" for dealing with webcasting provisions
inclusion, it's referred as "discussions on working paper (SCCR/12/5/
Prov)".  Pure WIPO jargon for how to include webcasting provisions.

Manon

http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=3D96&res=3D1024_ff&print=3D0

WIPO Negotiators Agree On Way Forward For Broadcasting Treaty
The member governments of the World Intellectual Property
Organisation today agreed on a plan to negotiate a treaty on the
rights of broadcasters by 2007 after two more committee meetings.

The proposal before the WIPO General Assembly, meeting from 26
September to 5 October, was whether and when to schedule a diplomatic
conference (a high-level treaty negotiation) for a broadcasting
treaty. The final agreement of the assembly, to be formally adopted
in an afternoon plenary session, states in part:

=93Two additional meetings of the Standing Committee on Copyright and
Related Rights (SCCR) will be scheduled to accelerate discussions on
the second revised consolidated text (SCCR/12/2 Rev. 2) and the
working paper (SCCR/12/5 Prov.). These meetings shall aim to agree
and finalize a basic proposal for a treaty on the protection of the
rights of broadcasting organisations in order to enable the 2006 WIPO
General Assembly to recommend the convening of a Diplomatic
Conference in December 2006 or at an appropriate date in 2007.=94

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