[DMCA-Activists] Broadcast Flag in WIPO Treaty

[Seth Johnson]

(Forwarded from Cory Doctorow's Boing Boing Blog)

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Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 09:52:24 -0700
From: "Cory Doctorow" <address@hidden>
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The fight against the Broadcast Flag just got harder. The
Broadcast Flag is a regulatory proposal that's nominally
about digital TV, but it's a Trojan horse for taking over
the whole technosphere, putting consumer electronics and IT
companies under a Hollywood veto to keep them from building
devices that challenge the MPAA's business model.

Now, the Broadcast Flag is the subject of a mandate embedded
in a proposed WIPO treaty, so that governments will be
obliged to make this happen, even if voters manage to
convince their lawmakers to keep technology free. 

    This treaty would require national law to grant to
broadcasters:

    * "the exclusive right to authorise or prohibit the
fixation of their broadcasts;"

    * "the exclusive right to authorise or prohibit the
direct or indirect reproduction, in any manner or form, of
fixations of their broadcasts;"

    * "the exclusive right to authorise or prohibit the
retransmission, by wire or wireless means, whether
simultaneous or based on fixations, of their broadcasts;"

    * and other rights, including the rights to control the
exhibition and distribution of fixations (recordings) of
broadcasts.

Link: http://bpdg.blogs.eff.org/archives/000163.html#000163
Discuss: http://www.quicktopic.com/boing/H/dEMzipBFbhw
Thanks, Seth!: http://vitanuova.loyalty.org/latest.html

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