[FYI] Look Inside A PC-killing WIPO Treaty

["Axel H Horns" <axel.h.horns@gmx.net>]

<http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/09/1959252>

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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