Impasse at WIPO Broadcasting Negotiations: Our Ship is Sinking

The image of a tanker slowly turning its course in a new direction has been used to describe how the special sessions of the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) will implement the 33rd General Assemblys instructions … However, with Mr. Jukka Liedes, the Finnish chair, steering the helm, it seems that our tanker will soon hit an iceberg, with devastating consequences to follow. Informal afternoon and night sessions on the second day interspersed with pizza, beer, and wine provided gratis by the Secretariat excluded NGOs from the deliberations. During the informals on the second day, parties close to the negotiations informed your blogger that many hours were spent on the what the “objectives” of a treaty for the protection of broadcasting organizations are. After 9 years of deliberations starting in 1998 in the Philippines, it is heartening to know that this Committee is finally considering the “objectives” of a broadcast treaty. ……

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