15 Mar, 2008: WIPO Copyright Committee Considers Many Proposals for 2008 Work Program
WIPO Copyright Committee: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back  'Broadcast Treaty Chair' Remains, Limitations and Exceptions to Copyright Considered (15 March 2008)  The WIPO Copyright Committee (SCCR) met from 10-12 March 2008 in Geneva to debate the future work program for the committee after the Member States ...

12 Mar, 2008: WIPO Copyright Committee Done For Year; Exceptions And Limitations ‘Here To Stay’
"The World Intellectual Property Organization copyright committee on Wednesday concluded work until next November in a way similar to recent years, with the same chair, European dominance, no agreement, and division over a proposed treaty on broadcasters’ rights. But it also contained the elevation of a proposal to improve exceptions and limitations to copyright, and a proposal for four ...

11 Mar, 2008: WIPO Copyright Committee Begins New Era With Revised Agenda, Same Chair (IP-Watch)
The World Intellectual Property Organization copyright committee on Monday began a new era in the wake of a failed decade of negotiations for a broadcasters’ rights treaty. But it will tackle its new agenda including limitations and exceptions to copyright with the same chairman who guided the broadcasting talks with fervour. Finland’s Jukka Liedes was re-elected chairman of the ...

21 Feb, 2008: Council of Europe Lurches Forward to Create Broadcasters Rights
Council of Europe takes step to create the Broadcast Treaty that WIPO Member States rejected in 2007. Interestingly, CoE calls the rejection of the treaty at WIPO as "deadlock" rather than admitting that the only ones who wanted the treaty were a handful of European broadcasters and the treaty was REJECTED, not deadlocked.

19 Dec, 2007: Broadcast Treaty Resuscitated by the Council of Europe (EDRi)
Pending the approval of its Committee of Ministers, the Council of Europe will try to promote a new broadcasting international document, building on the failed convention for the protection of broadcasting signals of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). As WIPO's 184 members have failed in agreeing upon a text for the treaty and as the conference for a ...

10 Dec, 2007: Broadcast Treaty: Council of Europe Picks Up Where WIPO Left Off (IP-Watch)
The Council of Europe is deliberating on whether to negotiate a convention to protect broadcasters’ signals against piracy and thereby take up the issue from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) where negotiations on a proposed broadcasting treaty came to a standstill earlier this year. The Council’s decision to proceed depends on approval by its Committee of Ministers. The ...

5 Nov, 2007: WIPO Committees Casting About For Future Work (IP-Watch)
WIPO enforcement committee last week heard from a series of intellectual property rights enforcers and others before attempting unsuccessfully to agree on the future work and moving to consultations till February. Meanwhile, separate consultations are continuing for a mandate for the WIPO copyright committee whose meeting has been postponed to next year.... WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights ...

28 Sep, 2007: Decision on the WIPO Broadcast Treat at 2007 General Assembly
"The General Assembly is invited to ... decide that the subject of broadcasting organizations and cablecasting organizations be retained on the agenda of the SCCR for its regular sessions and consider convening of a Diplomatic Conference only after agreement on objectives, specific scope and object of protection has been achieved.''

28 Sep, 2007: Notes on the Broadcasting Treaty from the 2007 WIPO General Assembly
"WIPO Deputy Director General Michael Keplingler introduced the background of the special sessions, following last year’s GA “During the second special session it became clear that no dipcon could take place in 2007” In the informal discussion it became evident that during the session it would not be possible to carry out the mandate of the GA Several dels wanted ...

22 Jun, 2007: Broadcast Treaty will be dead for a long time
"Today member states of WIPO decided that there will be neither a diplomatic conference on the proposed Broadcast Treaty, nor any more Special Sessions of the Standing Committee on Copyrights and Related Rights (SCCR). Till the end the Chair Yukka Liedes and the WIPO Secretariat intensely tried to keep the process on a way, at last by proposing that ...

22 Jun, 2007: WIPO Broadcasting Treaty Talks Sent Back To Committee (IP Watch)
"World Intellectual Property Organization members on Friday recommended to move talks on a proposed broadcasters’ and cablecasters’ treaty back to committee level for further consideration, a day after rejecting a proposal to elevate the issue to formal treaty negotiations. The move could signify a shelving of the issue, some nine years after discussions first began. The issue of updating the ...

21 Jun, 2007: Rejection of a DipCon on a WIPO Casting Treaty very much likely now
After two days of informal sessions the Special Session of the SCCR is still running. In these two days no progress was made. Today two new non-papers were published by the Chair reflecting the discussions and showing clearly that delegates are no way near a consensus. One produced after the morning session has now at least two alternatives for each ...

20 Jun, 2007: Joint NGO Statement at the 2nd Special Session of WIPO’s SCCR
We call upon WIPO delegates to reject the proposed WIPO Broadcast Treaty. After more than 9 years of discussions, efforts to find a treaty formulation that deals with piracy of broadcast signals, but which does not harm copyright owners and the legitimate users of broadcasts have failed.

20 Jun, 2007: WIPO Side-Event Highlights Exceptions, Limitations In Broadcasting Treaty (IP Watch)
"n Concerns that a new treaty on broadcasting being discussed at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) this week will be unbalanced, providing extra protection rights for broadcasters and further limits to users, was the topic of an event alongside the negotiation. The impact on developing countries was of particular concern. ..."

19 Jun, 2007: Battle For A New WIPO Treaty On Broadcasting Begins In Earnest (IP-Watch)
"World Intellectual Property Organization members are engaged in a critical weeklong meeting that will determine the fate of a proposed WIPO treaty on broadcasters’ rights. At the end of a second slow day, it was unclear which way it will go, according to participants, but things are intensifying and WIPO is watching closely, they said. ..."