{"id":443,"date":"2004-06-09T18:30:54","date_gmt":"2004-06-09T22:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/benadida\/2004\/06\/09\/wipo-when-bad-intellectual-property-"},"modified":"2004-06-09T18:30:54","modified_gmt":"2004-06-09T22:30:54","slug":"wipo-when-bad-intellectual-property-law-goes-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/2004\/06\/09\/wipo-when-bad-intellectual-property-law-goes-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"WIPO: when bad intellectual property law goes worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a106'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WIPO, the World Intellectual Property Organization, is currently debating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cptech.org\/ip\/wipo\/wipo-casting.html\">a new treaty to protect broadcasters of content<\/a>. Sounds like a good idea, right?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what the treaty would do, among other things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> make computers as we know them illegal, because they might be used to copy protected content.\n<li> suddenly give broadcasters control over content in the public domain (meaning, free to everyone for any use) as soon as they broadcast this content.\n<li> give broadcasters complete, fine-grained control over the content they broadcast: if Clear Channel doesn&#8217;t want you recording a radio program for later, personal use (say, because you&#8217;re busy at the time of the broadcast), they can physically prevent your recording device from doing so. And if you get a device that lets you ignore the Clear Channel order, even for completely personal, non-commercial use, you&#8217;re doing something illegal and so is the manufacturer of the device. Think of it as VCR = illegal.\n<\/ul>\n<p>Is this the kind of society we want? One of absolute control, one of ask-for-permission? I hope not.<\/p>\n<p>Two organizations are working to prevent this absolute catastrophy: the <a href=\"http:\/\/eff.org\">EFF<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.public-domain.org\/\">Union for the Public Domain<\/a>. Check them out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WIPO, the World Intellectual Property Organization, is currently debating a new treaty to protect broadcasters of content. Sounds like a good idea, right? Here&#8217;s what the treaty would do, among other things: make computers as we know them illegal, because they might be used to copy protected content. suddenly give broadcasters control over content in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}