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“Under the revived WIPO Broadcast Treaty, broadcasters would have the right to stop you from using public domain and CC-licensed video footage as you choose, effectively giving them a new copyright over material simply by sending it out over the air.
The rules would also prohibit breaking DRM that was used to lock up public domain and CC-licensed broadcasts, and would let them stop fair use.”
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UN wants to give broadcasters rights over public-domain and CC-licensed shows – Boing Boing
WHAT THE FUCKING HELL?!
(via jaybushman)
“The World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) “Treaty on the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations” is protection all right—a protection racket for middlemen in the TV and Internet worlds.
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.
If that wasn’t bad enough, some countries at WIPO have supported expanding the treaty to cover the Internet. That means that anyone who feeds any combination of “sound and images” through a web server would have a right to meddle with what you do with the webcast simply because they serve as the middleman between you and the creator. If the material is already under copyright you would be forced to clear rights with multiple sets of rightsholders. Not only would this hurt innovation and threaten citizens’ access to information, it would change the nature of the Internet as a communication medium.”
(via imaginarycircus)
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