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June 25, 2011 12:05 pm

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 copyrights holder, but to the broadcaster, without any contract to the original holder."

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