Union for the Public Domain

WIPO: The First Day

The 11th Meeting of the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights kicked off with a discussion of a WIPO Database Treaty, and then moved on to the main event: the draft broadcast treaty.

EFF and UPD collaborated on these blow-by-blow notes, written in the same document at the same time using wi-fi, Rendezvous, and SubEthaEdit.

For more information on the Broadcast Treaty, go here. Also check out Cory Doctorow's commentary.

UPD played an important role in the 1996 WIPO diplomatic conference, particularly as regards the UPD opposition to a treaty for sui generis protection of databases. Here are the web pages from that 1996 negotiation: http://public-domain.org/oldwww