GENEVA - A key committee acting on a mandate from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) General Assembly pushed ahead with negotiations on a treaty to update the protection of broadcasting organizations on a signal-based approach, a press release by WIPO stated.
The talks took place in the first of two special sessions of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) January 17-19, 2007. The second SCCR session will be held in June 2007.
According to the General Assembly, the sessions of the SCCR should aim to agree and finalize, on a signal-based approach, the objectives, specific scope and object of protection, a revised basic proposal, which will amend the agreed relevant parts of the Revised Draft Basic Proposal (document SCCR 15/2).
The General Assembly decided that a diplomatic conference would be held from November 19 to December 7, 2007 to conclude a treaty on the protection of broadcasting organizations, including cablecasting organizations, if agreement on new text was achieved during the special sessions.
"The main objective of the treaty is to serve as a stable legal framework for the activities of broadcasting organizations against piracy, but it also provides protection against competitors and against unfair exploitation, and against free-riding," Chair of the SCCR Jukka Liedes said.