Webcasts Excluded from WIPO Brodcast Treaty Negotiations

According to a November 22, 2004 report from AFX, Member States to WIPO's Rome Convention on the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations, sidelined a US proposal on November 19 that would have extend protection for television and radio productions to cover webcasting on the Internet. "There had been the proposal by the United States to have webcast included in the process of updating the broadcast treaty. There was no support for it," WIPO Deputy Director General Rita Hayes was quoted as saying.