[WSIS CS-Plenary] IPJ Media Release: WIPO Steps Up Pressure on "Special Interest"Broadcast Treaty

Thu Nov 18 22:21:15 GMT 2004

Salut tout le monde,
Existe-t-il une traduction en français de ce débat, je
n'ai iren trouvé sur le site en français de l'ONPI,
l'info en français quand par miracle elle existe elle
a tendance à être difficile d'accès ou en retard de
plusieurs métro. Détrompez moi !
Djilali 
--- Katitza Rodriguez <katitza at speedy.com.pe> wrote:

> (Spanish version at http://peru.cpsr.org
> 
> IP Justice Media Release ~ 18 November 2004
> 
> Contact: Robin Gross, IP Justice Executive Director
> Phone: (+41) 79-434-51-26 (in Geneva)
> Email: robin at ipjustice.org
> 
> 
> WIPO Steps Up Pressure on "Special Interest"
> Broadcast Treaty:
> Ignores Concerns of Developing Countries and Artists
> 
> (Geneva) The World Intellectual Property
> Organization (WIPO) opened its
> 12th session of the Standing Committee on Copyrights
> and Related Rights
> (SCCRR) yesterday in Geneva to push forward on its
> efforts to pass a
> treaty to create new rights for broadcasting
> companies.
> 
> The proposed treaty would create sweeping new rights
> for broadcasting
> companies that would severely undermine the public
> interest and subvert
> the rights of creators to large broadcasters.
> 
> Despite Brazil and India's request at the last
> committee meeting that
> the treaty draft allow for the possibility of
> removing provisions
> designed to prevent consumers from bypassing
> technology locks that
> broadcasting companies place on information and
> entertainment, no option
> to delete these provisions was included in the
> latest draft treaty.
> These controversial provisions, similar to the US
> Digital Millennium
> Copyright Act (DMCA), have been shown to harm to
> freedom of expression,
> consumer rights, technological innovation, and
> market competition.  Now
> WIPO proposes to grant an additional layer of rights
> for broadcasters,
> on top of the rights of copyright holders, to
> prevent consumer and
> scientific circumvention of technology locks on
> broadcasts.  If the
> treaty passes, consumers will be unable to access
> public domain
> programming that is locked up by broadcasting
> companies.  Artists will
> also be required to seek permission from
> broadcasting companies if they
> want to use their own performances.
> 
> "It is not the role of the WIPO Secretariat to tell
> Member States what
> their new laws will be, but rather to facilitate
> Member States'
> expressed will," said IP Justice Executive Director
> Robin Gross in a
> statement to the WIPO copyright committee. 
> "Self-determination is an
> indispensable component of legitimate democratic
> law-making processes.
> Unfortunately, it appears that the 'tail is wagging
> the dog' in this
> case," added Gross in Geneva.
> 
> Although the treaty purports to merely "update"
> existing laws, in
> reality it would create a broad range of new rights
> for broadcasters
> that currently exist nowhere in any national law. 
> For example, the
> United States proposed that the treaty's scope be
> broadened to also
> control webcasting.  Over a dozen Member States and
> the European
> Community urged that webcasting be removed from the
> scope of the
> treaty's regulation at the last meeting, but that
> provision, supported
> only the US, also remains in the draft treaty. 
> Including webcasting in
> the scope of this treaty would allow traditional
> broadcasting companies
> to squeeze out innovative Internet companies.
> 
> The proposed Broadcasting Treaty also severely
> undermines the goals of
> the "Development Agenda," which was adopted by the
> WIPO General Assembly
> in October to refocus WIPO's work away from
> continuously ratcheting up
> rightsholders' rights and toward incentivising
> access to knowledge.
> Unfortunately, WIPO's copyright committee has yet to
> heed the calls from
> developing countries and remains focused on "special
> interest" laws such
> as the proposed Broadcasting Treaty.
> 
> WIPO is pushing to conclude the committee's
> discussion this week and
> call for the convening of a Diplomatic Conference to
> begin official
> drafting of the Broadcasting Treaty.  If WIPO is
> successful and a
> Diplomatic Conference is called for, public interest
> organizations will
> not be permitted to attend the Diplomatic Conference
> to monitor the
> treaty making process under WIPO rules.
> 
> 
> For more information, see:
> http://www.ipjustice.org/WIPO
> 
> IP Justice Statement to 12th Session of WIPO
> Copyright Committee:
> http://www.ipjustice.org/WIPO/november04stmt.shtml
> 
> IP Justice Analysis of the WIPO Broadcasting Treaty:
> "Excessive Rights for Broadcasting Companies
> Threatens Public Domain and
> Technological Innovation":
>
http://www.ipjustice.org/WIPO/broadcastingtreatyreport2004.shtml
> 
> Development Agenda:
>
http://www.wipo.int/documents/en/document/govbody/wo_gb_ga/pdf/wo_ga_31_11.pd
> f
> 
> "Geneva Declaration" on the Future of WIPO:
>
http://www.ipjustice.org/WIPO/genevadeclaration.shtml
> 
> Alternative NGO Proposal for a Broadcasting Treaty:
>
http://www.ipjustice.org/WIPO/NGO_Treaty_Proposal_v2.8.pdf
> 
> Joint Statement by Artists and NGOs Opposing WIPO
> Broadcasting Treaty:
> http://www.ipjustice.org/WIPO/Joint_Statement.pdf
> 
> IP Justice Top 10 Reasons to Reject the WIPO
> Broadcasting Treaty:
>
http://www.ipjustice.org/WIPO/Top_10_reasons_WIPO.html
> 
> WIPO Draft Broadcasting Treaty:
> http://www.ipjustice.org/WIPO/sccr_12_2.doc
> 
> IP Justice is an international civil liberties
> organization that
> promotes balanced intellectual property laws. IP
> Justice defends
> consumer rights to use digital media worldwide and
> is a non-profit
> organization based in San Francisco. IP Justice was
> founded in 2002 by
> Robin Gross, who serves as its Executive Director.
> To learn more about
> IP Justice, visit the website at
> http://www.ipjustice.org.
> 
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