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12 December 2006
[Federal Register: December 12, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 238)]
[Notices]
[Page 74565-74566]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
United States 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 (USCO) 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
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, January 3, 2007
beginning at 1 p.m. and ending at 3 p.m. Requests to participate in the
roundtable should be submitted no later than 5 p.m. on December 29,
2006.
ADDRESSES: The roundtable will be held in the Atrium Conference Room at
the USPTO, 600 Dulany Street, Madison West, 10th floor, Alexandria, VA
22313.
Persons wishing to participate in the roundtable are required to
submit requests to 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 participate be made via e-mail or fax.
Requests for participation as a member of the roundtable must
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 5:00 p.m. on December 29, 2006. Due to space limitations,
attendance is limited to the first 40 respondents.
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 (SCCR) 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 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,
to be held in conjunction with the meeting of the preparatory
committee. It is understood that 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 to
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
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Diplomatic Conference will be convened in November 2007 if such
agreement is achieved. If no such agreement is achieved, all further
discussions will be based on Document SCCR/15/2. The first special
session of the SCCR will be held from January 17 to 19, 2007.
WIPO posts various documents from their meetings, such as reports,
member state submissions, meeting agendas, and texts prepared by the
Chair of the SCCR. The most recent text available from July 31, 2006 --
the Revised Draft Basic Proposal (Document SCCR/15/2) -- can be found
at http://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/doc_details.jsp?doc_id=64712. WIPO has
not yet made available a draft report from the 2006 General Assemblies,
but preparatory documents for the Assemblies are available at
http://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/details.jsp?meeting_id=11023.
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 and formal 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 Revised Draft Basic Proposal
(Document SCCR/15/2).
Dated: December 7, 2006
David O. Carson,
General Counsel.
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