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	WIPO Copyright Treaty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The WIPO Copyright Treaty, adopted by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in 1996, provides additional protections for copyright deemed necessary in the modern information era.
		The WIPO Copyright Treaty is implemented in United States law by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
		By Decision of 16 March 2000, the European Council approved the treaty, on behalf of the European Community.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/WIPO_Copyright_Treaty (226 words)

	WIPO Diplomatic Conference: Updated Intellectual Property Laws for a Digital World
		The WIPO Copyright Treaty clarifies that copyright protection extends to expressions and not ideas, and that computer programs are protected as literary works, regardless of their mode or form of their expression.
		The WIPO Copyright Treaty also raises the minimum duration of protection for photographic works, which is currently 25 years under the Berne Convention, to the duration of protection of other works under that convention (50 years).
		The WIPO Governing Bodies will be meeting in Geneva on March 20 and 21, 1997 to establish an action plan for these further negotiations in respect of the adoption of a protocol to the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty and the adoption of the Database Treaty.
	www.gahtan.com /alan/articles/wipo.htm (2096 words)

	Recording industry welcomes new international copyright treaty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Treaties recognize that copyright holders need to use technical measures, such as encryption, passwords and scrambling, in order to manage the delivery of their works to consumers, as well as to protect them from piracy and unauthorized copying.
		The WIPO Treaties require governments to protect such measures from hacking and circumvention effectively, which should include outlawing the manufacture and distribution of a range of circumvention devices.
		WIPO (The World Intellectual Property Organisation) is one of the 16 specialized agencies of the United Nations system of organizations.
	www.ifpi.org /site-content/press/20011206.html (794 words)

	von Erlach & Partners - Articles: The new WIPO Treaties on Copyright and Performers' and Phonogram Producers' Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Copyright Treaty governs the protection of literary and artistic works; its scope is the same as that of Article 2 of the Berne Convention, to which the Copyright Treaty refers.
		The Copyright Treaty raises the minimum duration of protection of photographic works from 25 years after the author’s death (as presently provided in the Berne Convention) to 50 years (as is already applicable under the Berne Convention to all other works).
		Under the Performances and Phonograms Treaty, a performer may, as far as is reasonably applicable, claim to be identified as the performer of his performances, and may object to any distortion, mutilation or other modification of his performances that would be prejudicial to his reputation.
	www.vonerlach.ch /articles/wipo.htm (1533 words)

	COPYRIGHT
		Although the NII Copyright Protection Act did not pass in 1996, much of its language was then included by the U.S. in a proposal to the World Intellectual Property organization for a new international copyright treaty that would take account of the issues raised by the digital world (see NINCH Newsletter, August 23, 1996).
		COPYRIGHT ACT of 1976 The first major revision of copyright law since 1909, principally undertaken to address the impact of the new technologies of photocopying and video recording as well as to bring U.S. law into accord with international law.
		See the Summary of the bill prepared by congressional staff (note that the Summary reflects the bill as introduced in March 1997, and does not include the musical licensing exemption, which was added by amendment in January 1998).
	www.ninch.org /ISSUES/COPYRIGHT.html (1350 words)

	CRNR/DC/94: WIPO Copyright Treaty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The agreed statements of the Diplomatic Conference (that adopted the Treaty) concerning certain provisions of the WCT are reproduced in the original text of the Treaty as footnotes under the provisions concerned.
		This Treaty shall be open for signature until December 31, 1997, by any Member State of WIPO and by the European Community.
		For the purposes of this paragraph, “interested party” means any Member State of WIPO whose official language, or one of whose official languages, is involved and the European Community, and any other intergovernmental organization that may become party to this Treaty, if one of its official languages is involved.
	www.wipo.int /documents/en/diplconf/distrib/94dc.htm (1698 words)

	The WIPO Copyright Treaty - Geneva - 1996
		The WIPO Copyright Treaty - Geneva - 1996
		This Treaty shall be open for signature until December 31, 1997, by any Member State of WIPO and by the European Community.
		The Director General of WIPO is the depositary of this Treaty.
	www.gseis.ucla.edu /iclp/wipo1.htm (1640 words)

	Intellectual Property Policy Directorate - Assessing the Economic Impact of Copyright Reform on Authors, Makers, ...
		Finally, there is value in simplifying the copyright rules by treating similarly all types of photographs and by harmonizing the Canadian rules with the international rules under the new WIPO treaties and this for two reasons.
		For the opponents to extending copyright term protection, the beneficiaries of such extensions are not the artists or creators themselves but rather corporations who by the time the copyright term expires are in fact the copyright owners on most of the works which would otherwise have fallen in the public domain.
		Similarly, copyright payments for works created more than 50 years ago could be shared between the copyright owners and the general public in a way that preserves the commercial value of the copyrighted works.
	strategis.gc.ca /epic/internet/inippd-dppi.nsf/en/ip01138e.html (3529 words)

	WIPO/PR/2002/304: WCT Enters into force (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The treaties lay down the legal groundwork to safeguard the interests of creators in cyberspace and open new horizons for composers, artists, writers and others to use the Internet with confidence to create, distribute and control the use of their works within the digital environment.
		He emphasized the importance of the new norms provided for in the WCT and the WPPT which, he said, are vital for the further development of the Internet, electronic commerce and thereby the culture and information industries.
		The treaties were agreed in 1996 and become law three months after they are ratified by 30 states.
	www.wipo.org /pressroom/en/releases/2002/p304.htm (300 words)

	N&V Spring 1997: WIPO Copyright (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The two treaties, known as the WIPO Copyright Treaty and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty, were announced on Friday, December 20, 1996, following more than twenty days of intensive, round-the-clock negotiations and just prior to the Conference's conclusion.
		Representatives from these industries lobbied government delegates heavily for treaty exemptions on behalf of their member companies, while music publishing representatives were among the internet "content providers" who supported some form of treaty clarification concerning digital transmissions of copyrighted works.
		This language was considered by the delegates to be neutral, and to provide signatory countries with the flexibility to implement rules for internet activity as acts of communication/performance, acts of reproduction/distribution, or both (as is the case in the United States).
	www.nmpa.org /nmpa/spring97/wipo.html (309 words)

	EFF: WIPO
		EFF advising removing the treaty from the agenda of the Geneva Diplomatic Conference on Certain Copyright and Neighboring Rights Questions, and outlines several serious problems with the proposed treaty, aside from the fact that it is an attempt by the US Administration to pull and "end run" around our own legislature.
		In short, the treaty draft is ill-conceived, and caters to the wishes of a small number of corporations at the expense of the entire public.
		Without HR2674, fear intellectual proeperty-holding mega-corporations, the WIPO treaty is not iron clad enough against fair use rights and anti-trust law that protects the public interest from monopolistic practices these companies wish to engage in.
	www.eff.org /IP/WIPO (548 words)

	Copyright Reform and the WIPO Copyright Treaty \| Darren Barefoot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Copyright Reform and the WIPO Copyright Treaty
		I am writing to strong advise you to reconsider this strategy, as the WIPO treaty is poorly conceived and threatens the Canada’s future in information technology and the Internet.
		The approach that WIPO took to regulating the Internet was to create a set of rules that tried to make the Internet act more like radio, or TV, or photocopiers — like all the things that it had already made rules for.
	www.darrenbarefoot.com /archives/001342.html (669 words)

	WIPO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Furthermore, the WIPO Copyright Treaty raises the minimum duration of protection of photographic (which in the Berne Convention now is 25 years) to the duration of protection of other works under the Berne Convention (50 years).
		The Treaty also recognizes moral rights for performers in respect of their live aural performances and their performances fixed in phonograms.
		The official text of the Treaties can be obtained from WIPO in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Spanish and Russian, and, are being made available in English, French and Spanish on the Internet (http://www.wipo.int).
	id-www.ucsb.edu /detche/library/www/fairuse/wipo.html (347 words)

	International Publishers Association - Copyright Publications (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A Diplomatic Conference on Copyright and Neighbouring Rights Questions was held by WIPO in Geneva from 2 December to 20 December 1996.
		In the broadest terms, the Treaty is an important landmark in the adaptation of the international copyright system to the digital environment.
		The Treaty also confirms the protection under copyright of computer programs and of compilations of data, and establishes a distribution right in respect of physical copies of copyright works, a right often seen as inherent in the reproduction right, but now made explicit.
	www.ipa-uie.org /copyright/copyright_pub/wipo_treaty.html (1502 words)

	U.S. Copyright Office - World Intellectual Property Organization
		Basic proposal for the substantive provisions of the treaty on certain questions concerning the protection of literary and artistic works
		Basic proposal for the substantive provisions of the treaty for the protection of the rights of performers and producers of phonograms
		Basic proposal for the substantive provisions of the treaty on intellectual property in respect of databases
	www.copyright.gov /wipo (92 words)

	sask100 Copyright
		As the diagram to the right attempts to illustrate, copyright is just one of the six areas of intellectual property.
		You cannot copyright an idea by itself, but you can copyright a book, a computer program, or some such vessel for your idea.
		WIPO meetings continue in an attempt to improve relationships among member countries.
	tdi.uregina.ca /~sask100/law/page1.html (741 words)

	Footnotes
		This agreed statement was in striking contrast to the proposed treaty language and proposed comments on exceptions and limitations to copyright in the draft treaty considered at the WIPO diplomatic conference.
		The draft treaty considered at WIPO included a provision quite similar to the anti-circumvention provision endorsed by the Clinton Administration in the White Paper which sought to outlaw technologies, the primary purpose or effect of which was to circumvent technical protection measures.
		56. The WIPO Copyright Treaty, as finally concluded, was actually far more consistent with U.S. copyright law than the draft treaty with which the negotiations had begun (and which was substantially based on proposals by U.S. officials).
	www.law.berkeley.edu /journals/btlj/articles/vol14/Samuelson/html/note.html (6585 words)

	WIPO Copyright Treaty - Worldwide DMCA (was: European DMCA) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Previous message: WIPO Copyright Treaty - Worldwide DMCA (was: European DMCA)
		Alex: > IP is the wider law, governing copyrights, trademarks, etc. Copyright is > merely asserting authorship.
		The truth is different: copyright, patents, trademarks are legal hacks designed to help society as a whole; they are not natural rights and they must not be lumped together as they act in different realms with different means.
	mail.fsfeurope.org /pipermail/discussion/2001-August/001638.html (236 words)

	Re: WIPO COPYRIGHT TREATY AND WIPO PERFORMANCES AND PHONOGRAMSTREATY
		Before a country can ratify either of these WIPO treaties, their own copyright laws must already be in compliance with the provisions in either treaty.
		Amending copyright laws as you know can take many years and especially when countries are amending them in relation to a "non-static" things such as digital media and the Internet, there is probably even greater work both substantively and politically in amending the laws.
		Re libraries and schools, the ongoing debate of the balance between copyright owners and users once again arises -- when should owners have complete control over their works...and when should laws override this control by allowing certain free uses for instance for educational purposes.
	www.library.yale.edu /~llicense/ListArchives/9911/msg00066.html (401 words)

	Algeria 2005 Investment Climate Statement
		Algeria is a signatory of the Paris Industrial Property Convention on Copyrights, the Berne convention for the protection of literary and artistic works, as well as the Madrid Arrangement and Lisbon Agreement for the protection of appellations of origin and their international registration.
		As of May 2005, Algeria intended to ratify the 1996 WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT) and the WIPO Performance and Phonograms Treaty (WPPT) during the course of 2005.
		Patents, copyrights, trademarks and integrated circuits are currently protected under 2003 laws, industrial designs and models under 1966 laws, and appellations of origin under 1976 laws.
	www.state.gov /e/eb/ifd/2005/51356.htm (4374 words)

	WIPO Copyright Treaty - Worldwide DMCA (was: European DMCA)
		WIPO Copyright Treaty - Worldwide DMCA (was: European DMCA)
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		The "Directive 2001/29/EC of the European > Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001" simply brings DMCA-like > laws to all the EU space.
	mail.fsfeurope.org /pipermail/discussion/2001-August/001613.html (402 words)

	CLA: Resources - Copyright Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Discussion Paper on the Implementation of the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty Addresses amendments "necessary to the Canadian Copyright Act in order to comply with the WIPO Performances And Phonograms Treaty." Prepared by Johanne Daniel and Lesley Ellen Harris for Canadian Heritage and Industry Canada.
		It describes the rights copyright provides to creators and the limitations that are placed on those rights for the benefit of libraries and library patrons.
		Addresses amendments "necessary to the Canadian Copyright Act in order to comply with the WIPO Copyright Treaty." Prepared by Johanne Daniel and Lesley Ellen Harris for Canadian Heritage and Industry Canada.
	www.cla.ca /resources/copyright.htm (2418 words)

	Pamela Samuelson - IP and the Digital Economy
		Treaty because U.S. law already complied with all but one minor provision of that treaty.
		Insofar as the WIPO Copyright Treaty clarified this
		The WIPO treaty digital copyright norms were, however, mostly old news for U.S. law.
	cyber.law.harvard.edu /property/alternatives/samuelsonanti.html (13574 words)

	IIPA Home Page
		IIPA testifies on global copyright piracy, including Russia and China, at the hearing on "Piracy of Intellectual Property" held by the Subcommittee on Intellectual Property of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
		IIPA files comments with the TPSC on the copyright and enforcement provisions in the AGOA trade legislation and on the SACU FTA IPR negotiations.
		IIPA submits its views to the USITC on the Andean Trade Preference Act (ATPA) and identified copyright problems in the four ATPA countries (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru).
	www.iipa.com (298 words)

	Korea Update (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Korea joined the World Intellectual Property Organization Copyright Treaty on March 24 by submitting accession documents to the WIPO director general.
		Korea will be able to exercise its rights and obligations as a signatory from June 24, as the treaty requires a three-month lapse for the membership to take effect, the ministry said.
		The WIPO Copyright Treaty was concluded in Geneva in 1996 to protect the rights of authors in their literary and artistic works, particularly to protect digital copyrights.
	www.koreaemb.org /archive/2004/4_1/econ/econ1.asp (141 words)

	dmca
		To amend title 17, United States Code, to implement the WIPO Copyright Treaty and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty, to provide limitations on copyright liability relating to material online, and for other purposes.
		The Register of Copyrights shall maintain a current directory of agents available to the public for inspection, including through the Internet, in both electronic and hard copy formats.
		The order shall authorize and order the service provider receiving the notification to disclose expeditiously to the copyright owner or person authorized by the copyright owner information sufficient to identify the alleged direct infringer of the material described in the notification to the extent such information is available to the service provider.
	www.think.org /ip/dmca.html (5112 words)

	House-introduced version of H.R. 2281 as WIPOCTIA (WIPO Copyright Treaty Implementation Act), July 29, 1997
		This Act may be cited as the `WIPO Copyright Treaties Implementation Act'.
		`The `WIPO Copyright Treaty' is the WIPO Copyright Treaty concluded at Geneva, Switzerland, on December 20, 1996.';
		`The `WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty' is the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty concluded at Geneva, Switzerland, on December 20, 1996.'; and
	www.eff.org /IP/DMCA/hr2281_wipoctia_19970729_bill.html (2729 words)

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