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Skriven 2005-03-07 10:48:48 av Roy Witt (1:10/22)
   Kommentar till text 6330 av Paul Sanders (3:633/104)
Ärende: World Intellectual Property Organization
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Hello Paul.

07 Mar 33 06:37, you wrote to Robert Couture:

 RC>> Even if they were not international, they would do the same.
 RC>> International treaties recognise and offer protection for their
 RC>> copyrighted works.

 PS> The RIAA & MPAA have not done that in the (recent) past.

They're party to:

How are copyright and related rights protected on the Internet?
Two treaties were concluded in 1996 at the World Intellectual Property
Organization (WIPO) in Geneva. One, the WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT),
deals with protection for authors of literary and artistic works, such
as writings and computer programs; original databases; musical works;
audiovisual works; works of fine art and photographs. The other, the
WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty (WPPT), protects certain
"related rights" (that is, rights related to copyright): in the WPPT,
these are rights of performers and producers of phonograms.

The purpose of the two treaties is to update and supplement the major
existing WIPO treaties on copyright and related rights, primarily in
order to respond to developments in technology and in the marketplace.
Since the Berne and Rome Conventions were adopted or lastly revised more
than a quarter century ago, new types of works, new markets, and new
methods of use and dissemination have evolved. Among other things, both
the WCT and the WPPT address the challenges posed by today's digital
technologies, in particular the dissemination of protected material over
digital networks such as the Internet. For this reason, they have
sometimes been referred to as the "Internet treaties."

Both treaties require countries to provide a framework of basic rights,
allowing creators to control and/or be compensated for the various ways
in which their creations are used and enjoyed by others. Most
importantly, the treaties ensure that the owners of those rights will
continue to be adequately and effectively protected when their works are
disseminated through new technologies and communications systems such as
the Internet. The treaties thus clarify that existing rights continue to
apply in the digital environment. They also create new online rights. To
maintain a fair balance of interests between the owners of rights and
the general public, the treaties further clarify that countries have
reasonable flexibility in establishing exceptions or limitations to
rights in the digital environment. Countries may, in appropriate
circumstances, grant exceptions for uses deemed to be in the public
interest, such as for non-profit educational and research purposes.

The treaties also require countries to provide not only the rights
themselves, but also two types of technological adjuncts to the rights.
These are intended to ensure that rightholders can effectively use
technology to protect their rights and to license their works online.
The first, known as the "anti-circumvention" provision, tackles the
problem of "hacking": it requires countries to provide adequate legal
protection and effective remedies against the circumvention of
technological measures (such as encryption) used by rightholders to
protect their rights. The second type of technological adjuncts
safeguards the reliability and integrity of the online marketplace by
requiring countries to prohibit the deliberate alteration or deletion of
electronic "rights management information": that is, information which
accompanies any protected material, and which identifies the work, its
creators, performer, or owner, and the terms and conditions for its use.

The WCT entered into force on March 6, 2002. For the WPPT, the date of
entry into force was May 20, 2002. A number of countries have
implemented the provisions of the two treaties in their national
legislation. The Collection of Laws for Electronic Access (CLEA)
database of WIPO can be consulted to search copyright laws of a wide
range of countries.




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