October 3-4, 2018 Geneva Graduate Institute, C1 Chemin Eugène-Rigot 2 Petal 5 KEI is hosting a 1.5 day seminar on the WIPO broadcasting treaty October 3-4, 2018, at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), which is walking… Continue Reading
USTR has provided some details of the new trade agreement with Mexico, here. As usual, the agreement seems to favor drug companies and holders of copyrights, although few of the details are known. Among the specifics revealed are a proposed… Continue Reading
On June 28, 2018, the U.S. Senate provided the necessary advice and consent for ratification of the WIPO Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired or Otherwise Print Disabled. At present, 39… Continue Reading
May 28 to June 1, 2018 WIPO’s Page on the Meeting SCCR36 – WIPO’s draft action plans on copyright limitations and exceptions NGO letter to WIPO SCCR delegates expressing grave concerns about proposed WIPO treaty for broadcasting SCCR36 A look… Continue Reading
On Friday, 1 June 2018, WIPO’s Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR, 36th Session) adopted the following recommendation on the Treaty for the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations. This language below is reproduced in paragraph 8 of the Chair’s… Continue Reading
Note: there is an update on the final text in a more recent blog, here. The text below reflects the state of play at 5:19 pm. Friday, 1 June 2018 Geneva 17h19 The “Zombie treaty” for broadcasters may be much… Continue Reading
Proposal from Senegal and Congo to include the Resale Right (droit de suite) in the Agenda of Future work by the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights of the World Intellectual Property Organization KEI supports further work on the… Continue Reading
On Thursday, 31 May 2018, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) made two recommendations in relation to WIPO’s draft action plan on educational and research institutions and persons with other disabilities. KEI proposed that the regional seminars for educational and research institutions… Continue Reading
The revised Chair’s text (SCCR/36/6) is very responsive to the broadcasters, and mostly hostile to the civil society groups’ positions, on issues such as term and exceptions, and extending the right to materials delivered over the Internet. One bright spot… Continue Reading
First: Deferred transmission. What is a deferred transmission? Here are the definitions in Daren Tang’s (the Chair of the SCCR) text of the treaty. Available here: http://www.wipo.int/edocs/mdocs/copyright/en/sccr_35/sccr_35_12.pdf: (f) “near simultaneous transmission” means a transmission for the reception by the public… Continue Reading