Re: Broadcast Treaty very very bad

[Richard Sales <richard@glasswing.com>]

Well spoken, Tom

Well... things SEEM to be improving a bit in the US.  At least the John Wayne Rambo movie seems to be changing plot a bit which is a good sign.  Of course, we can only hope that it's not Alfred Hitchcock or Stephen King writing the plot with yet another, even darker twist coming. 

For what it's worth, I really love Canada.  A sweet change from the US but not so radical that it's disorienting.  I'd think there'd be a lot of opportunity here for a guy with your credentials.  And the igloos aren't too expensive!  The real down side is, beer is.

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On 15-Apr-07, at 7:43 AM, Tom Ritchford wrote:

> Unfortunately, I see us losing most of these battles and having to
> refight them in 20 years and get them right.
>
> In the United States where I live (today -- I just visited Budapest
> and am thinking of moving there for a bit, any thoughts on that?  the
> music scene around New York is in a sad state...), there is a
> provision in the Constitution that more or less says that all rights
> not described in the Constitution revert to the People.
>
> Unfortunately, the United States and much of the rest of the world
> seem to have forgotten this idea -- that copyrights, trademarks and
> patents were originally explicitly intended as rights granted for a
> limited period in order to increase the Public good.
>
> At some point, there's going to have to be a dramatic recapture of our
> rights when we sort all this mess out again, assuming we don't go all
> 1984 forever.  For the moment, I think we have to expect things like
> the Broadcast Treaty -- not that it absolves us from fighting against
> such bad laws, no use in making it easy for 'em.
>
> On 4/14/07, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 14 apr 2007, at 21.04, samba - wrote:
> >
> > > BoingBoing:
> > >
> > > Public hearing on Broadcast Treaty in DC, May 9
> > > The US Patent and Trademark Office is holding public hearings on
> > > May 9 to discuss the US position on the WIPO Broadcast Treaty --
> > > you can attend and even speak.
> > >
> > > The Broadcast Treaty is a proposal to let broadcasters (and
> > > "webcasters" -- people who host files and make them available to
> > > the Internet) claim a copyright to the stuff that they transmit.
> > > Broadcasters get this special right even if the stuff they're
> > > sending around is in the public domain, or Creative Commons
> > > licensed, or not copyrightable (like CSPAN's broadcasts of
> > > Congress). Fair use doesn't apply to this right.
> > >
> > > What this means is that a handful of corporations are going to be
> > > able to claim copyrights over billions of works they didn't create
> > > -- works that they've done nothing to improve, works they've done
> > > nothing for except electromagnetically modulating them.
> > >
> > > What this means is that these corporations are going to be able to
> > > trump the rights of actual creators. If you put a Creative Commons
> > > license on your video that allows your fans to share it, the
> > > "broadcaster" -- or the person who transmits it over the Web -- can
> > > override your wishes and tell your fans that they can't.
> > >
> > > This is a proposed UN treaty, and the US position on it keeps
> > > wavering. The tech sector recently woke up and told the government
> > > off for selling them out in Geneva, critically wounding the
> > > Treaty's prospects. With a little help, it could die altogether.
> >
> >
> > Holy Shit! I could never have imagined that coming up... I know
> > about, and think it makes sense, when the author "sells" the
> > copyright of media music especially designed for a certain tv show,
> > advertisement spot etc, but this new treaty seems just crazy!
> > Attempted robbery.
> >
> > Greetings from Sweden
> >
> > Per Boysen
> > www.boysen.se (Swedish)
> > www.looproom.com (international)
> > http://tinyurl.com/fauvm (podcast)
> > http://tinyurl.com/2kek7h (CC donationware music releases)
>
>
> -- 
> /t
>
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