By Margherita Barié, Laurence Cohen, Duncan Curley, Dr. Thomas Hauss, Justin Hill, Fred Pearson and Boris Uphoff
Copyright
1. International Standards For The Protection Of Broadcasters’ Rights To Be Updated
World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) reported on 10 June 2004 that WIPO Member States have made significant progress towards the adoption of a new international treaty on the protection of broadcasting organisations.
The intellectual property rights of broadcasters, which are currently protected by the 1961 Rome Convention on the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations, are increasingly facing problems of piracy. As a consequence, the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) started work on a new instrument for their protection in 1997. At the eleventh session of the SCCR which took place in Geneva from 7 to 9 June 2004, WIPO proposed a consolidated text for a new WIPO Treaty on the Protection of Broadcasting
