News Coverage – 2007
SCCR Special Session 1 (January 17-19, 2007)
Testimony of James Packard Love
Hearing on: The Scope of Copyright Protection
January 14, 2014
Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet
My 10 page written statement is here: /wp-content/uploads/JamesLove_Testimony.pdf
My 5 minute oral statement follows:
James Packard Love, Opening statement
Hearing on: The Scope of Copyright Protection
January 14, 2014
Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet
WO/GA/43/13
WIPO General Assembly
Forty-Third (21st Ordinary) Session
Geneva, September 23 to October 2, 2013
REPORT ON THE WORK OF THE STANDING COMMITTEE ON COPYRIGHT AND RELATED RIGHTS
prepared by the Secretariat
A. PROTECTION OF BROADCASTING ORGANIZATIONS
It is recalled that the updating of the rights of broadcasting organizations in response to technological developments has been under discussion in all SCCR sessions since 1998, including two special sessions exclusively devoted to that subject in 2007.
WO/GA/40/6
WIPO General Assembly
Fortieth (20th Ordinary) Session
Geneva, September 26 to October 5, 2011
REPORT ON THE WORK OF THE STANDING COMMITTEE ON COPYRIGHT AND RELATED RIGHTS
prepared by the Secretariat
A. PROTECTION OF BROADCASTING ORGANIZATIONS
4. It is recalled that the updating of the rights of broadcasting organizations in response to technological developments has been under discussion in all SCCR sessions since 1998, including two special sessions exclusively devoted to that subject in 2007.
WO/GA/34/16
ITEM 17 OF THE CONSOLIDATED AGENDA:
REPORT ON THE SPECIAL SESSIONS OF THE STANDING COMMITTEE ON COPYRIGHT AND RELATED RIGHTS REGARDING THE PROPOSED DIPLOMATIC CONFERENCE ON THE PROTECTION OF THE RIGHTS OF BROADCASTING ORGANIZATIONS
202 Discussions were based on document WO/GA/34/8.
203 Referring to document WO/GA/34/8, the Secretariat summarized the previous discussions and the recommendation from the Second Special Session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR).
From Pfizer’s 10-K report, section on Risk Factors, for fiscal year ended December 31, 2012.
Number of words in Item A1: 7790
Compulsory licensing of patents: 63
Counterfeit products: 126
Pricing Pressures and Government Regulation: 604
Foreign Exchange and Interest Rate Risk: 324
Global Economic Conditions: 382
Prohibition against the use of federal funds for reimbursement of erectile dysfunction medications: 50
The first significant negotiation on the WIPO broadcast treaty took place in December 2013, and negotiations will continue at the SCCR during a meeting of April 28 to May 2. This is a Timeline of WIPO negotiations on the Treaty.
The Current working draft of the treaty is SCCR/24/10 Corr. (Link here).
Below is the final version of the conclusions from SCCR 26 (followed at the end with a short KEI commentary).
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World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR)
Twenty–sixth Session
Geneva, December 20, 2013
Conclusions
Protection of Broadcasting Organizations
SCCR 26 December 20, 2013 afternoon: workplan discussion
After 5 days of diplomatic if not collegial meetings (at least in plenary, I do not really know what is going on in informals), the last day afternoon session is quite tense. The conclusions have been drafted (I briefly saw a leaked version) and the group coordinators have met with the Chair.