On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 21:59 +0930, Janet Hawtin wrote: > Hi folks > > Just a heads up that beyond the DMCA on the not so distand horizon > the same WIPO organisation is working on giving people who broadcast or netcast > over the internet 'parity' licenses with their offline counterparts. > This means they want to own copyright of material they transmit. > Regardless of the status of the material as public domain, cc or copyright to a > person or organisation. > > Some good links for information on this issue include > This is something I don't understand. Broadcasting a piece does not constitute a new performance, and it should not convey on the broadcaster rights they did not negotiate with the copyright owner. The foundation of licenses such as the BSD and GPL is copyright. Its through the ability to specifically allow and deny certain rights to recipients of our work that we can do what we do. By automatically assigning extra rights beyond what has been originally agreed, the power is taken away from the content creator and given to the distributor. This is just plain wrong and works against the spirit and intent of copyrights in the first place. We stand on the cusp of a huge shift in the way the media is used across the globe. From new digital media services, to internet based media. Sites like youtube and video.google represent one part of this new wave. They allow the user a hell of a lot more control over what they watch than the traditional media does. Whats going to come next is the new media players. Technologies like annodex combined with new content creators and new, integrated media devices like those being developed by Bluebox all mean that a consumers viewing world just got a whole lot bigger. Well thats my rant for tonight I'll stop now -- James Purser Producer/Presenter - Open Source On The Air A LocalFOSS Production http://www.localfoss.org irc: #localfoss on irc.freenode.net
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