[LINK] America to US gov't: kill the Broadcast Treaty!

[Kim Holburn]

America to US gov't: kill the Broadcast Treaty!

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/09/05/america_to_us_govt_k.html
> An incredibly diverse coalition of high-powered public interest  
> groups, industry associations, and corporations have signed an open  
> letter to the US Patent and Trademark Office rejecting the  
> "Broadcast Treaty," a US-led UN initiative that could do untold  
> harm to artists, tech and telecoms companies, scholars, and people  
> with disabilities.
>
> Under the Broadcast Treaty, fair use, Creative Commons and the  
> public domain would be trumped by the "broadcast right," which  
> would be owned by the broadcaster of works. If you got a copy of a  
> work over the air or over the Web that copyright would let you use  
> (because it was in the public domain, because it was factual, or  
> even because the creator had granted you permission), you'd still  
> need to seek permission from the "caster," who would get a 50-year  
> monopoly over the re-use of copies of the works it transmitted.

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