The WIPO Treaty for the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations would basically give copyright protections (fixation, reproduction, distribution, DMCA) to broadcasters, cablecasters and, if the US gets it way, webcasters (whatever that means). Read more about this dangerous draft treaty here: The Broadcast Flag Treaty - Draft Available.
The WIPO treaty doesn't call for anything like the INDUCE Act, but to implement it, the US would basically have to extend most basic copyright law (and the DMCA) to cover broadcasts. What do you think? Will Congress revisit and change copyright law to apply it to broadcasters, or will Congress basically port over everything in copyright law to the new broadcast rights law? If the US signs the Broadcast Flag treaty, you don't think that broadcasters would get less protection do you?
Yep, yet another reason to make sure the INDUCE Act doesn't pass.
Excerpt: A little over a week ago, I discussed how the IICA (née INDUCE Act) might end up extending the already overbroad Broadcast Flag Treaty (INDUCE Act + Broadcast Flag Treaty = ???). Today I continue my series on how various...
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