Feeling like the slow kid in class...

Posted May 9, 2006 10:58 UTC (Tue) by zotz (guest, #26117)
In reply to: Feeling like the slow kid in class... by hingo
Parent article: EFF: webcasting dropped from WIPO

"Somewhere I read that this would somehow mean that also the music played in a webcast becomes owned by the creator of the webcast. But that's so idiotic that even I don't believe that interpretation, and let's face it, we've seen much that would warrant maximum cynisism."

To my understanding, that is pretty much what it would mean...

Co-owned at least, for the copies stemming from them. You could still get a copy from somewhere else that they had no ownership in if you could find such a copy.

A broadcaster or webcaster making a 'cast of a public domain work would get "copyright like" rights over that broadcast such that, if you got the public domain work from them, for you, you could not treat your copy as if it was in the public domain.

What is even wilder, if they were broadcasting something with a copyleft license, if you got a copy from their broadcast, for you it would not be copyleft. Well, not effectively at least.

If this is the case, this would be somehthing that the new GPL3 might want to head off at the pass.

Some links I found on a CC mailing list:

http://www.openbusiness.cc/2006/05/04/closeding-business-...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-love/wipo-carves-up-t...

all the best,

drew