WIPO Talks May Portend Sweeping Broacast-Based Copyright

An anonymous reader writes "It seems the nasty 'Broadcast Treaty' is rearing its head again in the WIPO talks. This would give a new copyright to what is uncopyrighted or out of copyright material to anyone who broadcasts the material. It essentially re-ups the copyright — not to the original copyright holder, but to the broadcaster, without any contract to the original holder."

Re:What's a "Broacast"?

[alostpacket]

Endless re-runs of the "Don't taze me Bro" video :(

Re:Quick! Who's going to broadcast Shakespeare fir

[SuricouRaven]

Amusingly, as copyright terms under Berne are set on author's life plus a period that varies by jurisdiction (95 years in the US), and as the bible claims to have been either directly dictated by or derived from inspiration of God... if the bible's account of itsself is true, then it's still copyrighted. Conveniently for the believers though, it includes in the new testament an effective licence to copy and distribute. There's even a little bit right at the end of Revelation that prohibits unauthorised modification.