(We met with the US WIPO Delegation on this topic in February:
> http://www.nyfairuse.org/action/wipo.xcast/xcast.usdelmeet.xhtml
Two Joint Statements Calling for Public Comment on the XCasting
Treaty:
> http://www.nyfairuse.org/action/wipo.xcast/xcast.jointstatement.xhtml
> http://www.cptech.org/ip/wipo/bt/2cong4frnotice.html
National Academy of Science Symposium on the XCasting Treaty:
> http://www7.nationalacademies.org/biso/Webcasting_Treaty_Symposium.html
More info at these links:
> http://www.nyfairuse.org/action/wipo.xcast/
> http://www.cptech.org/ip/wipo/bt/
> http://www.ipjustice.org/WIPO/broadcasters.shtml
> http://www.eff.org/IP/WIPO/broadcasting_treaty/
> http://www.public-domain.org/?q=node/33
-- Seth)
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Ecommerce] USPTO Federal Register Notice on Roundtable
on WIPO xCasting Treaty
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 16:44:36 +0200
From: Thiru Balasubramaniam <thiru@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: ecommerce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> http://frwebgate1.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/waisgate.cgi?WAISdocID=825482293756+0+0+0&WAISaction=retrieve
[Federal Register: August 17, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 159)]
[*Notices*]
[Page 47489]
>From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr17au06-31]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Patent and Trademark Office
[Docket No. PTO-C-2006-0044]
Notice of Roundtable on the World Intellectual Property
Organization (*WIPO*) Treaty on the Protection of the Rights of
Broadcasting Organizations
AGENCY: United States Patent and Trademark Office, Department of
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice announcing public forum.
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SUMMARY: The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
and United States Copyright Office (USCO) 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 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 Tuesday, September 5, 2006,
beginning at 1 p.m. and ending at 3 p.m.
ADDRESSES: The roundtable will be held in the Atrium Conference
Room at the USPTO, 600 Dulany Street, Madison West, 10th Floor,
Alexandria, VA 22313. Requests for participation as a member of
the roundtable are required and should be directed to the USPTO,
600 Dulany Street, Madison West, 10th Floor, Alexandria, VA
22313, marked to the attention of Jill Taylor. You may also
submit requests by facsimile at 571-273- 0085 or by electronic
mail through the Internet to Jill.Taylor@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:Jill.Taylor@xxxxxxxxx>. Requests for participation as a
member of the roundtable should indicate the following
information:
1. The name of the person desiring to participate;
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
participant (or his or her organization) and any questions
or issues the participant would like to raise.
The deadline for receipt of requests to participate in the
roundtable is 5 p.m. on Thursday, August 31, 2006. Attendance is
limited to the first 40 respondents.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jill Taylor by telephone at
571-272- 8083, by facsimile at 571-273-0085, by electronic mail
at Jill.Taylor@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:Jill.Taylor@xxxxxxxxx>, or by
mail addressed to the USPTO, 600 Dulany
Street, Madison West, 10th Floor, Alexandria, VA 22313, marked to
the attention of Jill Taylor.
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 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
agreements ineffective to protect broadcast signals against
piracy.
At the September 2005 *WIPO* General Assembly, the decision
was taken to hold additional meetings of the SCCR to permit
further discussion of the possible treaty and to invite the 2006
*WIPO* General Assembly to convene a Diplomatic Conference in
December 2006 or at an appropriate time in 2007.
*WIPO* posts various documents from their meetings, such as
reports, member state submissions, meeting agendas, and
[official] texts prepared by the Chair of the SCCR. The most
recent text available from July 31, 2006--``Revised Draft Basic
Proposal for The *WIPO* Treaty on the Protection of Broadcasting
Organizations'' can be found at
http://www.*wipo*.int/meetings/en/doc_details.jsp?doc_id=64712
<http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/leaving.cgi?from=leavingFR.html&log=linklog&to=http://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/doc_details.jsp?doc_id=64712>.
On August 1, 2006, the United States made a submission to *WIPO*
addressing the issue of ``netcasting'' which is available at
http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/dcom/olia/
<http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/leaving.cgi?from=leavingFR.html&log=linklog&to=http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/dcom/olia/>
and will shortly be available on the *WIPO* Web site.
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 USPTO
and USCO 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, USPTO and USCO are convening this roundtable to
provide another forum for such parties to provide their views of
and additional information related to the proposed treaty. In
particular, the participants should be prepared to identify and
discuss more fully the issues and problems associated with the
recent text available from July 31, 2006, the ``Revised Draft
Basic Proposal for The *WIPO* Treaty on the Protection of
Broadcasting Organizations.''
Dated: August 15, 2006.
Stephen M. Pinkos,
Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and
Acting
Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
[FR Doc. E6-13680 Filed 8-16-06; 8:45 am]
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