The WIPO Committee on Copyright and Related Rights agreed to draft a webcasting treaty by April 1 of next year. Excerpt from Declan McCullagh's story in Thursday's News.com: "Jamie Love, who works for the Ralph Nader-affiliated Consumer Project on Technology, says the treaty is worrisome because it creates an additional legal protection for works in the public domain that are Webcast. 'Say there's a film that's out of copyright and in the public domain, but it's in the vault of some movie studio,' Love said. 'If you got it from the broadcast, you're not allowed to make a copy. You have to go to the original source.' In other words, anyone viewing a Webcast of material that falls outside of copyright --such as a government-created documentary or a very old movie or audio recording-- may not be able to freely store and redistribute that content....'Broadcasters see this as a way to extend rights to noncopyrighted information,' said Love, who attended the WIPO meeting in Geneva." (PS: Like the Bono Act that retroactively extended the term of copyright, this is piracy from the public domain.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/09/2003 04:05:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
