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Copyright tussle looming over online video?
News The World Intellectual Property Organization, or Wipo, a specialised arm of the UN, gave the go-ahead in 2003 to begin drafting the treaty but a final version is still pending. Jule Sigall, the US Copyright Office official who led the roundtable... [06 Sep 2006]
Webcasting ejected from broadcasting treaty
News The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on Friday welcomed the news that webcasting will no longer be included in the World Intellectual Property Organization's (Wipo) broadcasting treaty. The Treaty on the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations... [09 May 2006]
Official: file-sharing legal
News The country has not yet ratified World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) treaties that contain more specific language saying that only copyright holders or their licensees have the ability to make copyrighted works available to others. [01 Apr 2004]
WIPO promises quick-fix patent procedure
News The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has passed a treaty that will simplify and reduce the costs of the patenting procedure. The patent law treaty (PLT) was finalised last week at the end of a WIPO diplomatic conference in Geneva and... [05 Jun 2000]
WIPO to set up worldwide patent database
News The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) has signed a major contract with a consortium of IT vendors to supply a database system to handle worldwide patent applications. The WIPO claims IMPACT is the largest single IT project ever... [12 Jan 2000]
Nine point ecommerce agenda mapped out at WIPO summit
News The organisation is lobbying national governments to sign its two Internet treaties - the WIPO Copyright Treaty and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty - before December 2001. The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) has detailed... [20 Sep 1999]
US government throws its weight behind WIPO copyright standards
News The WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT) and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty (WPPT) contain a general update of the legal principles underpinning international protection of copyright and the rights of performers and phonogram producers on the... [15 Sep 1999]
