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13 April 2007
[Federal Register: April 12, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 70)]
[Notices]
[Page 18493-18494]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Copyright Office
Notice of Roundtable on the World Intellectual Property
Organization (WIPO) Treaty On the Protection of the Rights of
Broadcasting Organizations
AGENCY: United States Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
ACTION: Notice announcing public forum.
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SUMMARY: The United States Copyright Office and the United States
Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announce a public roundtable
discussion concerning the work at the World Intellectual Property
Organization (WIPO) in the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related
Rights (SCCR) on a proposed Treaty on the Protection of the Rights of
Broadcasting Organizations. Members of the public are invited to attend
and observe the roundtable, or to participate in the roundtable
discussion, on the topics outlined in the supplementary information
section of this notice.
DATES: The roundtable will be held on Wednesday, May 9, 2007, beginning
at 2 p.m. and ending at 4 p.m.
ADDRESSES: The roundtable will be held in the Mumford Room at the James
Madison Memorial Building, 6th Floor, Library of Congress, 101
Independence Avenue, SE., Washington, DC.
Persons wishing to attend and observe or participate in the
roundtable are required to submit requests to observe the roundtable or
participate, preferably by electronic mail through the Internet to
sking@loc.gov. Alternatively, you may submit requests by facsimile at
202-707-8366 or via regular mail to: U.S. Copyright Office, Copyright
GC/I&R, P.O. Box 70400, Southwest Station, Washington, DC 20024, marked
to the attention of Simone King. Please be aware that delivery of mail
(U.S. Postal Service and private carrier) sent to the U.S. Copyright
Office is subject to delay. Therefore, it is strongly suggested that
any request to observe or participate be made via e-mail or fax.
Requests to observe the roundtable or to participate as a member of the
roundtable must indicate the following information:
1. The name of the person, including whether it is your intention
to observe the roundtable or to participate as a member of the
roundtable;
2. The organization or organizations represented by that person, if
any;
3. Contact information (address, telephone, and e-mail);
4. Information on the specific focus or interest of the observer or
participant (or his or her organization) and any questions or issues
you would like to raise.
The deadline for receipt of requests to observe or participate in
the roundtable is 5:00 p.m. on Friday, May 4, 2007. If we receive so
many requests that we reach the room's capacity, attendance will be
granted in the order the requests were received.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Simone King by telephone at 202-707-
5516, by facsimile at 202-707-8366, by electronic mail at
sking@loc.gov, or by mail addressed to the U.S. Copyright Office,
Copyright GC/I&R, P.O. Box 70400, Southwest Station, Washington, DC
20024, marked to the attention of Simone King.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
For the past eight years and since the first meeting of the
Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights in November 1998,
WIPO has been addressing the topic of updating the protection of the
rights of broadcasting organizations. Although broadcasters' rights are
protected under some existing international agreements, such as under
the 1961 Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of
Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations (however, the United States
is not a party to that treaty) and the World Trade Organization's
Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights,
there has been increasing concern that changes in technology and the
opening up of much of the world to commercial broadcasting, have made
the protection provided in those
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agreements ineffective to protect broadcast signals against piracy.
At the September 2006 WIPO General Assembly, the decision was taken
to convene two special sessions of the SCCR to clarify the outstanding
issues, the first one in January 2007, and the second one in June 2007.
The special sessions of the SCCR should aim to agree and finalize, on a
signal-based approach, the objectives, specific scope and object of
protection with a view toward submitting to the Diplomatic Conference a
revised basic proposal, which will amend the agreed relevant parts of
the Revised Draft Basic Proposal (Document SCCR/15/2). The Diplomatic
Conference will be convened in November 2007 if such agreement is
achieved.
WIPO posts various documents from its meetings, such as reports,
Member State submissions, meeting agendas, and texts prepared by the
Chair of the SCCR. On March 9, 2007, in accordance with the decisions
of the First Special Session of the SCCR which took place from January
17 to 19, 2007, WIPO requested comments from Member States on a Draft
Non-paper on the WIPO Treaty on the Protection of Broadcasting
Organizations, prepared by the Chair of the First Special Session, with
the assistance of the WIPO Secretariat (Document SCCR/S1/WWW/75352 can
be found at http://www.wipo.int/edocs/mdocs/sccr/en/sccr_s1/sccr_s1_www_75352.doc
). Member State submissions commenting on the Draft Non-
paper on the WIPO Treaty on the Protection of Broadcasting
Organizations, including comments of the United States Government, are
available at http://www.wipo.int/copyright/en/sccr_s1/. A revised Non-
paper, taking into account Member State comments on the Draft Non-
paper, is expected to be made available to Member States on May 1,
2007.
Throughout this process in WIPO, many points of view have been
represented, including those of developed and developing countries, and
many non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and numerous industry,
creator and content owner groups. The U.S. Copyright Office and USPTO
have participated in several informal meetings with interested parties
such as broadcasters, netcasters, telecom companies, Internet service
providers, content industries, creators and other NGOs, in order to
obtain views and information relevant to the deliberations in the SCCR
on this proposed treaty.
In order to allow further opportunity for interested parties to
comment, the U.S. Copyright Office and USPTO are convening this
roundtable -- the third held on this issue --to provide another forum
for such parties to provide their views on and additional information
related to the proposed treaty. In particular, the participants should
be prepared to identify and discuss more fully any issues and concerns
associated with the revised Non-paper to be released by WIPO on May 1,
2007.
Dated: April 9, 2007.
David O. Carson,
Associate Register for Policy and International Affairs U.S. Copyright
Office.
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