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Good News for receiving Foreign Broadcasts

watty · 2007-06-25 09:50:10

Or even recording your own local broadcasts to watch later: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070622-reviled-broadcast-treaty-dies-at-wipo.html

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25-06-2007 10:50am

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Or even recording your own local broadcasts to watch later:

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070622-reviled-broadcast-treaty-dies-at-wipo.html

Here's the issue: if NBC broadcasts a Creative Commons-licensed video, it could be illegal for users to record and redistribute that particular broadcast because NBC would own the rights to the signal. The video could still be gleaned from online sources or directly from the producer, of course, but it could make the situation more difficult than it is now (NBC currently has rights only to content that it owns, not to its signal). Some of the wilder claims made by opponents of the treaty suggested that broadcasters could somehow "lock up" public domain content simply by showing it, but this wasn't accurate.

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