broadcast treaty
SCCR 21: Initial impressions from day 1
Submitted by thiru on 8. November 2010 - 5:39The 21st session of the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) commenced its work at 10:33 AM on Monday, 8 November 2010.
This unusually quick start is perhaps indicative of Member States' commitment to examine the three substantive agenda items up for consideration during this five day negotiation; these three issues include: 1) protection of broadcasting organizations, 2) protection of audiovisual performances and 3) limitations and exceptions.
SCCR 20: Draft Conclusions
Submitted by thiru on 24. June 2010 - 7:32It is 3:30 PM on Thursday, 24 June 2010 in Geneva, and the 20th session of the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) is now reviewing these draft conclusions.
World Intellectual Property Organization
Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR)
Twentieth Session
Geneva, June 21 to 24, 2010
Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR)
Twentieth Session
Geneva, June 21 to 24, 2010
Draft Conclusions
PROTECTION OF BROADCASTING ORGANIZATIONS
KEI general statement to 2009 WIPO General Assembly
Submitted by thiru on 29. September 2009 - 6:25The following is the general statement that KEI delivered to the WIPO General Assembly on September 29, 2009.
General Statement of KEI
WIPO 2009 General Assembly
September 29, 2009
ACTA
Outside of WIPO, some countries are involved in secretive negotiations on a new Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). KEI asks WIPO to adopt a resolution calling for an end to the secrecy of this negotiation. Global norms for the enforcement of IP should be transparent and benefit from comments from the public before decisions are made on substantive provisions.
…and the kitchen sink? (WIPO)
Submitted by Manon Ress on 12. March 2008 - 13:15Since nobody really wants to work on the casters treaty (no matter what they say) today we’re talking about what should be on the table, the work program for the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights at WIPO.
To push back the excellent proposal on limitations and exceptions made by Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and Nicaragua yesterday the EU is proposing to add:
Draft Conclusions of the WIPO copyright committee (March 2008)
Submitted by thiru on 12. March 2008 - 9:38This text was handed at around 11 AM on Wednesday morning. Apologies for any typos. This was typed by 3 different people from the hard copy distributed by the International Bureau.
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STANDING COMMITTEE ON COPYRIGHT AND RELATED RIGHTSSixteenth Session, March 10 to 12, 2008-03-12
DRAFT CONCLUSIONS
Protection of audiovisual performances
The politics of group B and the WIPO Broadcasting treaty
Submitted by James Love on 23. June 2007 - 9:06While some of the news reports have focused on north/south disputes over limitations and exceptions to rights in the WIPO Broadcasting treaty, there is a also a growing divide between North America (US and Canada) on the one hand, and Europe and Japan, on the other, over the nature of the rights in the treaty. The EU position (followed by Japan), which is being pushed by the very non-neutral Finish chair, is for Rome+ rights, to reward investment, not creativity.
Comments on end of the SCCR meeting - (Treaty dipconf is not scheduled, and unlikely in near future)
Submitted by James Love on 23. June 2007 - 5:10The Casting treaty? No, It’s not really dead yet
Submitted by Manon Ress on 22. June 2007 - 10:13Friday June 22 1 pm
The following is circulating right now:
Draft conclusions of the Second Special Session of the SCCR on the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations
Prepared by the Chair
SNIP
The Committee made the following recommendation:
SNIP
The Director General
-convenes a session for joint analysis of notions, terms and conceptual basis of the instrument
The General Assembly
-decides that a Third Special Session of the SCCR be convened in November/December 2007
KEI Statement on breakdown of Broadcast Treaty negotiation
Submitted by James Love on 21. June 2007 - 22:00"Today the WIPO SCCR decided against scheduling a diplomatic conference to create a new treaty on broadcasting, and set a high bar for doing so. Technically, the subject of the Broadcasting Treaty will continue to be on the agenda of the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights, but with a fairly tough hurdle before it can move to a diplomatic conference -- after there is agreement on the objectives, scope and object of protection, topics for which there is no agreement in sight.
Jukka’s definition of a signal
Submitted by James Love on 21. June 2007 - 17:11In the new June 21 text of the non paper they have just handed out, the Chair has proposed a definition of a signal, finally. It is take from the Brussels Convention, and reads as follows:
( ) “signal” means an electronically-generated carrier capable of transmitting programs;
This is from Article 1 of the Brussels Convention, which reads:
(i) “signal” is an electronically–generated carrier capable of transmitting programmes;
