[Ecommerce] EU and US want to extend broadcasters' protection to webcasters

[Manon Ress]

At the last WIPO meeting Nov 21-23, 2005, the EU and the US have cut
a deal on webcasters' protection in new treaty to be done in 2007.
The new rights to be granted do not exist anywhere but will be in the
new WIPO treaty.  We have asked the US delegation for a public
consultation, a federal register notice on the impact on the internet
among other things, but the US has refused to do anything until a few
weeks before the diplomatic conference.  Let's hope some European
countries will ask some question to their negotiators.
Manon

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2005/11/29. IP
WIPO. Significant progress for the adoption of a treaty to update
intellectual property standards for broadcasters in the digital age
The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Standing
Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) has recently held a
meeting where significant progress towards the updating of
intellectual property rights for broadcasters in the digital age has
been achieved.

Works were initiated back in 1997 with the aim of adopting a new
treaty that would update the 1961 Rome Convention on the Protection
of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting
Organizations. The new treaty would eventually extend the protection
granted in this Convention to webcasters, entities that transmit over
the Internet.

The SCCR will hold further meetings with the view of adopting the new
treaty in 2007.

Related Links:Related WIPO press releaseRevised Consolidated Text for
a Treaty on the Protection of Broadcasting OrganizationsRome
Convention 1961Related IPR-Helpdesk news item:2004/11/26 WIPO.
Progress towards a Treaty to update intellectual property standards
for broadcasters in the digital age

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