Four Oxford graduate students in law--Tina Piper, Shyamkrishna Balganesh, Dev Gangjee, and Tatyana Nikiforova--have written an academic report analyzing the broadcast treaty. Among other points, they argue that:
- Granting too many privileges to broadcasters through the treaty may lead to under-use of the very broadcasts the privileges are supposed to promote.
- The proposal to extend broadcast ownership privileges to 50 years is not justifiable for broadcasters to recoup their investment.
