[Ecommerce] CSC side event at WIPO SCCR: Joint Industry/NGO concerns regarding the WIPO Broadcasting Treaty

[Thiru Balasubramaniam]

On Tuesday, September 12, 2006, the Civil Society Coalition will host a
side event entitled, "Joint Industry/NGO concerns regarding the WIPO
Broadasting Treaty" which will bring together a mix of leading industry
and civil society groups to elaborate their joint submission

(http://www.cptech.org/ip/wipo/bt/jointletter5sep06usptoforum.pdf) to
the US delegation on September 5, 2006 " united in a  common belief that
the WIPO Treaty on the Protection of Broadcasts  and Broadcasting
Organizations, as currently drafted, would harm  important economic and
public policy interests."

The letter's signatories note that "[c]reating broad new intellectual
property rights in order to protect  broadcast signals is misguided and
unnecessary, and risks serious  unintended negative consequences" and
"recommend instead a signal  protection-oriented approach, ideally
focusing narrowly and  specifically on protecting signals from
intentional misappropriation  or theft".



Sincerely,

Thiru Balasubramaniam
Geneva Representative
Consumer Project on Technology
076 508 0997
thiru@cptech.org


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The panel discussion will take place in Room B of WIPO from 13:30 to
15:00 on Tuesday, September 12, 2006.

The following confirmed speakers include:
Jeffrey Lawrence (Intel), Sarah Deutsch (Verizon Communications), Matthew S=
chruers (Computer & Communications Industry Association), Nick Ashton-Hart =
(Adviser, NGO & Industry Coalition) and James Love (Director, CPTech).  The=
 respondent will be Sisule Musungu (South Centre).


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Jeffrey Lawrence, Director, Global Content Policy
Intel Corporation

Sarah B. Deutsch
Vice President & Associate General Counsel
Verizon Communications

Matthew Schruers
Senior Counsel for Litigation & Legislative Affairs
Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA)

Nick Ashton-Hart
Adviser, NGO & Industry Coalition
Former Executive Director of International Music Managers Forum (IMMF)

James Love
Director
Consumer Project on Technology (CPTech)


Respondent:

Sisule Musungu
Acting Coordinator
Innovation, Access to Knowledge and Intellectual Property Programme (IAIPP)
South Centre