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Tag: Broadcasting Treaty
What’s next with WIPO’s ill-advised broadcast treaty?
by Timothy Vollmer CopyrightSix years ago we wrote a blog post titled WIPO’s Broadcasting Treaty: Still Harmful, Still Unnecessary. At the time, the proposed treaty — which would grant to broadcasters a separate, exclusive copyright-like right in the signals that they transmit, separate from any copyrights in the content of the transmissions — had already been on WIPO’s docket for…
WIPO’s Broadcasting Treaty: Still Harmful, Still Unnecessary
by Timothy Vollmer UncategorizedCreative Commons has been involved in discussions at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) over the last several years, and we’ve made interventions in support of the public domain, as well as other topics. One issue in particular that is resurfacing at WIPO is a draft treaty for the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations, or “Broadcasting…
WIPO’s Broadcasting Treaty: Still Harmful, Still Unnecessary
by Timothy Vollmer UncategorizedCreative Commons has been involved in discussions at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) over the last several years, and we’ve made interventions in support of the public domain, as well as other topics. One issue in particular that is resurfacing at WIPO is a draft treaty for the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations, or “Broadcasting…