Comments on SCCR/48/3 March 18, 2026 WIPO Broadcast Treaty Text
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Roundtable on negotiating text for a WIPO Broadcast Treaty, April 3, 2025
(UPDATE: A recording of the event is available on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNw57Jps7z8) KEI will host an informal roundtable on the WIPO broadcast treaty text that will be discussed at the WIPO SCCR 46 meeting from April 7 to April… Continue Reading
KEI Letter Opposing Diplomatic Conference for WIPO Broadcasting Treaty
Knowledge Ecology International sent a January 13, 2025 letter to the delegates of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) opposing the convening of a diplomatic Conference for a WIPO Treaty for the… Continue Reading
The Trouble with the WIPO Broadcast Treaty
KEI has shared this analysis of the WIPO negotiations on a broadcasting treaty with negotiators. WIPO-Broadcast-Treaty-Analysis-28Feb2023 Brief update 1: The WIPO negotiations on a broadcasting treaty began in 1997. This week, the broadcasters hope to finally get an SCCR node… Continue Reading
SCCR 40: A New Tax on Non Profit libraries?
Other Matters at WIPO SCCR 40,a Proposal for study on public lending right: Like a sail in the wind on Lake Leman in Geneva, the Copyright and Related Rights Committee can change directions quite rapidly. For example, at the end… Continue Reading
SCCR 40 Other Matters, Resale right/Droit de Suite: 100 years later
The Angelus was sold by Millet for 1,000 francs in 1865, but just 14 years after Millet’s death in 1889, it was sold by the copper merchant Secrétan for 553,000 francs. In France, 100 years ago, the resale right was… Continue Reading
SCCR 40 Slow Progress regarding Study on Copyright in the Digital Environment
Today, the last day to SCCR 40, started with the first topic of Agenda Item 8 Other Matters: Copyright in the digital environment See Documents related documents on the meeting page at https://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/details.jsp?meeting_id=56053 The first topic for “other matters”, Copyright… Continue Reading
Selected NGOs Statements on Limitations and Exceptions at WIPO SCCR 40
November 18, 2020 Among NGOs attending the SCCR 40, there are clear opposite views of what should be done by the SCCR right now. The rightholders (collective societies and producers) say things are fine, they just need more licensing opportunities.… Continue Reading
WIPO Secretariat Report on Limitations and Exceptions at SCCR 40
Discussions, or rather statements on limitations and exceptions started with the WIPO Secretariat’s report on regional seminars and an international conference that took place in 2019. See Documents: Report on Regional Seminars and International Conference (SCCR/40/2) (available in six languages);… Continue Reading
NGO letter to WIPO negotiators, regarding proposal to sidetrack WIPO work on copyright limitations and exceptions
NGO-letter-on-proposed-LnE-agenda-change-SCCR39-10.21 Chair-proposal-NEXT STEPS 10-21-19 October 21, 2019 RE: Chair Proposal on Next Steps for Agenda Items 5 and 6 Dear Delegates at WIPO SCCR 39: We are shocked by the attached proposal of the Chair to change the title of… Continue Reading