[FYI] Look Inside A PC-killing WIPO Treaty
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Posted by timothy on Wednesday June 09, @04:28PM
from the your-life-is-their-playpen dept.
mouthbeef writes "The Broadcast Treaty is a proposal from a WIPO
Subcommittee that's supposedly about stopping 'signal theft.' But
along the way, this proposal has turned into a huge, convoluted
hairball that threatens to make the PC illegal, trash the public
domain, break copyleft and put a Broadcast Flag on the Internet. The
treaty negotiation process is unbelievably convoluted and hard-to-
follow, and they've just wrapped up the latest round in Geneva. But
for the first time, a really large group of "civil society" orgs were
accredited to attend. Me and another EFF staffer and the Coordinator
of the Union for the Public Domain created a heavily editorialized
impressionistic transcript of the meeting (EFF mirror, UPD mirror),
trying to untie the knots in the negotiation. This is the first time
that a really exhaustive peek inside a WIPO treaty negotiation has
ever been published -- get it while it's legal!"
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