WIPO Talks May Portend Sweeping Broacast-Based Copyright
SOURCE: SLASHDOT • 2011-06-25
An anonymous reader writes It seems the nasty 'Broadcast Treaty' is rearing its head again in the WIPO talks. This would give a new copyright to what is uncopyrighted or out of copyright material to anyone who broadcasts the material. It essentially re-ups the copyright — not to the original copyrights holder, but to the broadcaster, without any contract to the original holder. Read more of this story at Slashdot. read more »