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June 09, 2004
WIPO - It's a WrapEmail This EntryPrint This Entry
Posted by Donna Wentworth

Reports Cory @ BoingBoing:


The Broadcast Treaty is a proposal from a WIPO Subcommittee that's supposedly about stopping "signal theft." But along the way, this proposal has turned into a huge, convoluted hairball that threatens to make the PC illegal, trash the public domain, break copyleft and put a Broadcast Flag on the Internet. The treaty negotiation process is unbelievably convoluted and hard-to-follow, and they've just wrapped up the latest round in Geneva. But for the first time, a really large group of "civil society" orgs were accredited to attend. [...] This is the first time that a really exhaustive peek inside a WIPO treaty negotiation has ever been published -- get it while it's legal!

Here are the consolidated notes to which Cory refers. If you care about the public's side of the copyright bargain, they're required reading. Print 'em out and take them home.


Category: IP Abuse

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Ernest Miller on June 9, 2004 03:03 PM writes...

Maybe I'll move to India someday.

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