[Free-sklyarov-uk] WIPO Treaty

[Ackroyd, Dan]

If I recall correctly the EUCD is the European implementation of this
treaty. 

>From the treaty:
This Treaty shall enter into force three months after 30 instruments of
ratification or accession by
States have been deposited with the Director General of WIPO.

Er, I guess when a WIPO lawyer says 'instruments of ratification ....' they
mean when 30 countries have implemented this treaty in their laws.

I really wish the people protesting against the WTO and other 'globalising'
institutions in the past couple of years had pointed out this kind of thing
more, but I guess it's difficult to explain why your protesting when the
news reporters are far more interested in filming people wrecking stuff and
generally fighting with the police.*

So I think that after March, if a country doesn't implement this treaty in
their own laws, they'd be in violation of their obligations under WIPO
organisation, which means it's more likely to get rubber stamped by
parliament. As the great man once said 'That's bogus dude!'

cheers
dan



-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Heffner [mailto:chuck at fatchucks.com]
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 3:48 PM
To: free-sklyarov-uk at xenoclast.org
Subject: [Free-sklyarov-uk] WIPO Treaty


Hey.
    Just browsing Slashdot when I saw this story:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/12/07/1651252&mode=nested
    In short, checkmate against US consumers, but the UK via The European
Union is still negotiable. This treaty completely legalizes digital rights
management (e.g., "copy-protection") for the entertainment industry,
regardless of our national laws. I'm unclear how this compliments or
overlaps with the EUCD.

Chuck




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