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Links: Inside the WIPO's Broadcast Treaty Negotiations
Posted by James Grimmelmann on Monday, June 07 @ 18:50:47 EDT Copyright
The World Intellectual Property Organization, better known as WIPO or "Wipeout!," is considering a treaty on IP protection for broadcasts. The basic idea -- that broadcasts could be protected from reproduction even when the contents are public domain -- is repugnant enough, but some of the details are even ookier.

A crack team of copyfighters is on the spot, however, inside the closed doors of the treaty-making organization, reporting on the goings-on. They're blogging up a storm, thanks to some clever use of social software. The Union for the Public Domain has their reports; the first entry is here.

Required reading.

 
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