[LAF] World Intellectual Property Organization Treaty for the Protection of Broadcasts and Broadcasting Organizations

[Volodya]

"If you are not PART of the media, you do not exist." - Malcolm McLaren

Cory Doctorow appeared on Episode 68 of This Week in Tech (http://www.twit.tv/68), the
frontmost running podcast about technology, and announced that WIPO ("World Intellectual
Property Organization"), an industry association which attempts to set global regulation
on copyright and royalties, is currently attempting to ratify a new set of regulations
which reduces the right of individual podcasters across the globe, and defines a rigid
ceiling of what a "podcast" is supposed to be, limiting the innovation of the masses in
the name of a small percentage of large corporations' copyright of webcasts.

The rights of Creative Commons copyright license holders will no longer have full control
over the rights of their content if this happens.

This will strip away YOUR rights to do with YOUR content as YOU please if distributed
through a third-party. It will no longer be a "lawyer-free zone".

Cory (http://craphound.com/) and EFF.org, (The Electronic Freedom Foundation) is calling
upon all podcasters and organizations, affiliations, groups, and hosting providers to add
your name to an online letter to WIPO and stop these additional regulations from happening.

http://www.eff.org/IP/WIPO/broadcasting_treaty/podcasting.php

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