[kictanet] Broadcasting Treaty: Council of Europe Picks Up Where WIPO Left Off

[Alex Gakuru]

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December 10, 2007. Broadcasting Treaty: Council of
Europe Picks Up Where WIPO Left Off

By Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch The
Council of Europe is deliberating on whether to
negotiate a convention to protect broadcasters'
signals against piracy and thereby take up the issue
from the World Intellectual Property Organization
(WIPO) where negotiations on a proposed broadcasting
treaty came to a standstill earlier this year. The
Council’s decision to proceed depends on approval by
its Committee of Ministers. The Council of Europe,
based in Strasbourg, France, predated and includes the
European Union.

Link to the article: http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=864


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