WIPO Broadcasting Treaty

MGDesigns

This was taken from Tutorial Writers Inc (special thanks to bodhi-creations for passing it on)

There's an entry in an LJ community about a *planned law that would give providers, etc. copyright to YOUR creative work for 50 years*! This means web pages, stories you have written, *ANYTHING* published on the Internet.

*BACKGROUND:* The World Intellectual Property Organization has drafted a proposed "Treaty on the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations." For many countries (including the United States) the treaty, if adopted, will create an entirely new type of intellectual property right. Under the treaty, broadcasting organizations obtain new legal rights to control uses of content that they broadcast-rights that are separate from and in addition to
any existing copyright rights in the content. Adopting countries can choose to extend these new rights to "webcast" content in addition to traditional broadcast content.

If adopted, the WIPO treaty will give broadcasters 50 years of copyright-like control over the content of their broadcasts, even when they have no copyright in what they show. A TV channel broadcasting your Creative Commons-licensed movie could legally demand that no one record or redistribute it?and sue anyone who does. And TV companies could use their new rights to go after TiVo or MythTV for daring to let you skip advertisements or record programs in DRM-free formats.

Anything posted to LJ and it's communities, and should the Internet expansion be included, would give LJ *50-year copyright-like rights over YOUR CREATIVE WORK*. Even if you post it on your own web space, your webhost would have the same sorts of rights, unless you own your own web space. And even if you are on your own server space that you own and house and run and everything, your Internet service provider could possibly lay claim to your work.

Even Intel is protesting this treaty. To read the whole thing and to find out what you can do about it, go here:

http://community.livejournal.com/veronicamarsfic/1352553.html?thread=13702505

Or Here:
http://www.eff.org/IP/WIPO/broadcasting_treaty/

To Protest this:
https://secure.eff.org/site/Advocacy?JServSessionIdr011=kftdaz9nm1.app13b&cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=163

DeluxeNames

Wow Moddy, I had no idea about this. Thanks for telling us

MGDesigns

You're very welcome, thought it would interesting to see the responses from in here, cause they're rather heated in TWI lol

WatchOut

Thanks MGDesigns, i never knew this!

MGDesigns

You're very welcome WatchOut

WatchOut

Yeah, thanks for treating me very nice Moddy, you have the best staff ever. Hurray for WebMasterPost. You'll be the largest webmaster forum soon, i like the way u treat people i will also try to referr ppl a lot here.