[Ecommerce] UNESCO paper on casting treaty

[Manon Ress]

According to a paper by Patricia Akester commissioned by UNESCO, the
draft Treaty would expand the level of protection granted to
broadcasting organizations and the beneficiaries of such protection
(adding cablecasters and webcasters), may prevent access to materials
in the public domain, obligations for TPMs, endanger copyright
policies underpinning restrictions, and the term of protection (50
years) would not be consistent the rationale of recovering
investment....

Also read "Assessment of the draft treaty in the context of the
European Court of Human Rights jurisprudence" p.44

Links at http://www.cptech.org/blogs/wipocastingtreaty/

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Manon Anne Ress
manon.ress@cptech.org,
www.cptech.org

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