[Fsfe-ie] Irish & European Podcasters Team Up To Lobby WIPO on casting treaty

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	       	Sunday, June 18, 2006

European Podcasters Team Up To Lobby WIPO

UK Podcasters Association has been joined by the Irish Podrepbod and
German Podcastverband to lobby WIPO in a pan-european effort to
assert podcasters' rights at the WIPO meeting in Barcalona Wednesday,
June 21st.

There is an online petition here - the text follows:

To: World Intellectual Property organization (WIPO)

This is a petition to the World Intellectual Property organization
(WIPO) regarding the Broadcast Treaty as it affects podcasting and
podcasters.

This treaty as it stands gives broadcasters (not creators or
copyright holders) the right to tie up the use of audiovisual
material for 50 years after broadcasting it, even if the programs are
in the public domain, Creative Commons licensed, or not copyrightable.

We consider this to be an infringement of the right of the originator
of a work to determine its form of licence, future usage and
copyright status.

Further, the extension of the Broadcast Treaty to include Podcasting
does not take into account the many forms of the new medium of
podcasting which do not correspond to broadcast models. We uphold our
right to be different from broadcasting and therefore subject to
legislation which takes these differences into account.

We, podcast creators, producers and supporters of the global
podcasting community, earnestly request that WIPO respect,
acknowledge and include the following in any revision of the
Broadcast Treaty:

- Broadcaster copyright cannot overrule podcast copyright or other
licence

- Podcasting is not broadcasting and the two must not be conflated
(forced together)

- The wishes of the creator regarding their rights in their work must
be respected

- Creative Commons licences, GPU licences, "free forever" licences
(in whatever form) are legitimate and must be upheld in perpetuity.

Deek Deekster

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