Staand Comité

Cptech berichtte op 5 mei over een meeting van het WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights, waarover het WIPO zelf  nog niet erg veel te melden heeft:

“Today WIPO finally took a step back from forcing a restrictive Rome Convention intellectual property right on Internet publishing... This is a victory for everyone who has opposed linking webcasting to the broadcasting treaty. 

There is still a lot of work to. There is a strong likihood the traditional broadcasting treaty will move forward, and the EU will clearly push to expand this to cases where broadcasters use the Internet.... and there are considerable problems with many of the proposals for the broadcasting treaty, including some very strong rights, TPMs, and other problems.  However, there is now also a growing movement away from granting IP rights in the content of transmissions, in favor of theft of services protections, which is a very positive development, and a new project to examine the impact of TPMs on limitations and exceptions, which is quite important.   The Internet is far safer now than before, because the threat of a new treaty for Internet middleman is now much less likely."

Lees hier meer. WIPO berichtgeving hier. Bericht op Tweakers hier.