Weighing Webcasters’ Rights to Content

Weighing Webcasters’ Rights to Content

Battles over illegal sharing of music online are so last summer. The hot fight now is over copying of video from television or the Internet that generally has been considered freely available to the public.

If television broadcasters and webcasters have their way in international treaty talks, they would gain new, 50-year rights to virtually any video they beam out, even if no one owns the rights to the content.

This is a devewlopment that must be watched very cloeely as it will alter the very nature of digital stakeholder relations. This is copyright moving in the wrong direction, but with Google it was the other wrong direction.

3 November, 2005 |

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