[WSIS CS-Plenary] ACTION ITEM: Sign the Request for public consultations on WIPO Webcasting treaty

[Jim McDonnell]

For the background to this see the very helpful article  More Rights are 
Wrong for Webcasters in the FT (27/09/05) by James Boyle.  Link below

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/441306be-2eb6-11da-9aed-00000e2511c8.html

Generally see http://www.ft.com/techforum

Jim

Jim McDonnell
SIGNIS
jimmcdonnell at blueyonder.co.uk

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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [alt.wsis] ACTION ITEM: Sign the Request for public 
> consultations on WIPO Webcasting treaty
> Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 20:31:00 -0700
> From: Sasha Costanza-Chock <schock at riseup.net>
>
> *please circulate widely!*
>
> This is a sign-on letter asking the leadership of the US House and
> Senate to block US support for a diplomatic conference at WIPO to create
> a new global intellectual property right for broadcasting and webcasting
> organizations, at least until the public can comment on the proposal.
>
> We are hoping to close out the letter by October 11. At present the
> United States trade negotiators are putting enormous pressure on WIPO to
> schedule the diplomatic conference by the 2nd quarter of 2006, and to
> include a highly controversial new IP right for "webcasting," which is
> defined extremely broadly. The proposal would give broadcasters and web
> page operators a property right in information now in the public domain,
> or which would otherwise be freely available from copyright owners. It
> creates a new thicket of rights that the public would have to deal with
> before they could share or reuse works.
>
> To sign, please visit 
> http://www.access2knowledge.org/cs/wipo.statement.iim3
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