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SCCR 31 KEI Statement on Right of Reproduction and Safeguarding copies
Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) is and has been supportive of the Committee’s work on access and preservation of knowledge which is important for everyone and every country.
Preservation and safeguarding copies of works is to some degree a global public good. We all want and need works to be preserved, and copyright and reproduction rights coupled with limitations and exceptions are essential.
SCCR31: General Statement of South Africa on Limitations and Exceptions
On Thursday, 10 December 2015 South Africa made the following general intervention on copyright limitations and exceptions at WIPO’s 31st session of the Standing Committee on Copyright Right and Related Rights (SCCR).
SCCR 31 Day 4 statements on limitations and exceptions for libraries & archives (AM session)
SCCR 31 International Federation of Journalists concerns regarding broadcasting treaty consequences
The IFJ, represented by Mike Holderness expressed some concerns regarding the new layer of rights for broadcasters and cablecasters:
> International federation of journalists: Thank you. Since this is the first time I have spoken, congratulations to the chair and the Secretariat for the excellent running of this event.SCCR 31 Day 3 on rights for broadcasting and cablecasting
to get the live transcript:
http://www.streamtext.net/player?event=WIPO
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webcast: http://www.wipo.int/webcasting/en/includes/newplayer/Player_EXT_roomN.htmlThe SCCR was supposed to start today with the Rights to be granted to broadcasters.
III. RIGHTS TO BE GRANTED/PROTECTION
ALTERNATIVE A
Broadcasting organizations shall have the right to authorize or prohibit the retransmission of
their broadcast to the public by any means.
ALTERNATIVE B
Broadcasting organizations shall have the right to prohibit the unauthorized retransmission of
Continue ReadingSCCR 31 KEI Intervention on the again-expanding scope of the broadcasting treaty
Martin Moscoso, the Chair, invited NGOs’ comments.
>> KEI: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. In listening to the conversation today and yesterday on this notion of signal versus the content, or container versus the content, it sounds appealing and people have been talking about this now for some years, the idea that you can separate the idea that there is a signal and there is content and things like that.
SCCR 31 Object of Protection: how to protect the signal only?
SCCR31 Object of Protection Discussions
Day 2 SCCR31 Object of Protection discussion started a 12:45pm. At 1pm we left for lunch and a meeting on education.
II. OBJECT OF PROTECTION(1) The protection granted under this Treaty extends only to broadcasts transmitted by, or
on behalf of, a broadcasting organization, but not to works or other protected subject
matter carried on them.(2) The provisions of this Treaty shall not provide any protection in respect of mere
retransmissions by any means.(3) Broadcasting organizations shall also enjoy protection for simultaneous or near
Continue ReadingKEI intervention on definition of broadcasting
WIPO SCCR 31 is having a text based discussion of the language for a proposed broadcasting treaty. The meeting is open to NGOs, instant transcripts are streamed over the Internet, and the proceedings are webcast. I was allowed to make to technical interventions this afternoon on the definitions. This is a slightly edited version of my second intervention, on the question of whether or not to have separate definitions for broadcasting and cable casting.
