SCCR 32 Day 2: Confidential Discussions re Casters’ Treaty
At the end of the morning plenary, the Chair announced that the SCCR would continue in an informal setting:
Broadcasting Treaty
SCCR 32 Day 2: What is missing from the broadcasting treaty discussion?
At the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights Twenty-seventh Session in Geneva (April 28 to May 2, 2014) the discussions on the proposed broadcasting treaty included the following safeguard articles that are totally missing from today’s discussions:
http://www.wipo.int/edocs/mdocs/copyright/en/sccr_27/sccr_27_2_rev.pdf
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.html
The 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
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SCCR 31 KEI on inclusion of cablecasters and the making available rights
KEI has the floor.
>> KEI: Thank you Mr. Chairman. KEI would be as concerned as anyone of piracy, of content that’s provided over cable systems. I think, however, it will be interesting for the association of broadcasters, the APP, if they could explain if in any of the countries where they have problems with people stealing cable signals if it’s actually not already against the law to do that.
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SCCR 31 Day 3 on Broadcasting. How far does the EU want to go with rights to broadcasting &cablecasting?
SCCR 31 Interesting exchanges (USA, Chile and Brazil) on paragraph 4
Regarding:
(4) The provisions of this Treaty shall apply mutatis mutandis to the protection of
cablecasting organizations in respect of their cablecasts.
SCCR 31 North American Broadcasters intervention
The North American broadcasters represented by Erica Edler
>> Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Nava represents broadcasters in North America, Canada, the United States and Mexico. I would like to thank the Chairman for his consolidated text which has served to focus discussions on some of the key issues on a new treaty for broadcasters.
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SCCR 31 Intervention by Teresa Hackett for eIFL re broadcasting treaty
>> Good afternoon. I’m speaking on behalf of electronic information for libraries, the works with libraries in developing and transitioning countries. I’d like to make a comment on the object of protection that has been under discussion here this afternoon. And the importance that any new instrument that might be created limits the object of protection to the signal and not to any underlying content.
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SCCR 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.