Protect Podcasting!! Sign Now!

[vikingyouth]

http://www.dearwipo.com/petition

info from boingboing.net

"Last year, WIPO looked like it had acknowledge the letters from podcasters, and leading tech companies complaining about the language of its Broadcast Treaty --- which would have created a whole new layer of IP for broadcasters to claim on even public domain and CC-licensed content streamed over the Net. They said they'd dump the old format, and narrow the treaty to what it was supposed to be about -- outlawing outright piracy of transmitted signals. This May, the WIPO chair put forward a new version of the treaty that - tada - contained exactly the same enclosure act IP rights, and even included language that would mean every PC would have to be crippled to prevent it decoding encrypted transmissions.
EFF and others are at WIPO this week: they'll be delivering this Dear WIPO petition to let the IP apparatchiks know they're being watched. Sign it now! "
go here to sign the petition http://www.dearwipo.com/petition

[Rasheed]

Sorry, but I read your explanation, the one on the site you linked to, and I still don't understand any of it.

Is some organization make it illegal to publish podcasts, unless you have written permission to do so? Like in a podcasting licence? Or what? I understand you need a licence to drive a car, but also to publish a podcast or a blog?

Please, can you clarify this in laymen's terms?

[RWTY]

In the simplest terms, I believe this act allows anyone who broadcasts content to claim content as their IP, or to at least exert some control over how that content is used in the future - even if that content is something they took from public domain or CC product.

So, for example - your podcast gets a snippet replayed by your local radio station. That radio station can then say, "Hey, no one can reuse this content because we put it in our broadcast, which we own."

That's simplifying things, but it's pretty accurate, I think.

[RobotsLove]

"...it gave traditional broadcasters and cablecasters new copyright-like rights over their transmissions, including control over Internet retransmissions of broadcasts and cablecasts."

So basically it allows a tv or radio station control over content streams they produce on the internet.

As I understand it, this would allow, say a radio station, to have some copyright-like control over a CC-licensed audio clip. This only muddies up the process of granting rights, but the most logical thing would be to revise it so that any license exercised by the owner of the IP in question should trump these transmission rights. I haven't seen either of the WIPO drafts, and I'm not a lawyer so I can't say for sure I know what's going on.

I don't know if this affects internet only broadcasters like YouTube to gain these rights.

[WyethDigital]

In the simplest terms, I believe this act allows anyone who broadcasts content to claim content as their IP, or to at least exert some control over how that content is used in the future - even if that content is something they took from public domain or CC product.

So, for example - your podcast gets a snippet replayed by your local radio station. That radio station can then say, "Hey, no one can reuse this content because we put it in our broadcast, which we own."

That's simplifying things, but it's pretty accurate, I think.

Actually, I believe it gives them rights over their actual transmission. Using your example, if a radio station played a snippet of our podcast (something that's actually happened to us, BTW), they would control the context in which it was played (as part of a program or presentation), not the podcast itself. The problem is, under these rules, it appears you are now granting an irrevocable right to distribute that piece of your show, and anything else you supplied along with it.

Granted, this is something to watch closely, and I think the petition is worth signing, but common sense (that's all I have to fall back on, I'm not a lawyer) would suggest that the intellectual property provisions are not a sign the sky is falling.

Eric

[smith123]

I am new comer, interested in podcasting. Would you give me some suggestion how can I do podcasting. Say in detail about license and a blog which can give full knowledge.

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