Today we are in endless “informational” session, chaired by John Simpson from the BBC, and featuring big broadcasters from India (Zee Network), and Brazil (TV Globo), ABN Holdings Ltd (ABN) (A company headquartered England, about) and the Caribbean Communications Network Limited. This is basically an astonishing long lobbying opportunity for the broadcasters, led and chaired by the BBC, introduced by Anne Leer, Deputy Director General for the Copyright and Related Rights work at WIPO, a WIPO official who was working for BBC last year.
I asked Francis Gurry when anyone other than the broadcast lobby would be given the opportunity to educate WIPO about the broadcasting treaty.
Jamie Love
June 29, 2015
2:05 PMto Francis Gurry
Francis,
Given how broad is the opposition to post fixation rights for the broadcast treaty, and how much the broadcasters lobbied for this today, when are other stakeholders given the same forum? In the treaty for the blind, the blind could never speak without the publishers sharing the program. Why do broadcasters, in their role as merely marketing content, get such a special deal?
Jamie
(a couple of typos corrected here).