[bestbits] Best Bits working group on Broadcasting Treaty?

[Nick Ashton-Hart]

Dear Jeremy,

FYI, there is quite a bit of civil society coordination on this treaty, and that's been true for almost a decade. EFF has always been a part of it, starting under Gwen and then following on with Carolina, and there are many others from civil society involved. There's actually a strong coalition of industry and civil society that works very closely together on this treaty and has for many years; I was the de-facto coordinator of it for a long time, and I'm still very involved in it.

It would be duplicative for BestBits to start from scratch on this very technical and long-running process and it could be counterproductive to have two separate coalitions of civil society coming up with separate responses to the same subject. Believe me when I tell you the broadcasters will seize on any perception of differences between communities to argue that the treaty should move forward. 

I strongly recommend that anyone interested start by subscribing to the mailing list for the subject hosted by Public Knowledge, here: http://groups.google.com/a/publicknowledge.org/group/wipo-bt/

Regards, Nick


On 2 Mar 2015, at 11:59, Jeremy Malcolm <jmalcolm at eff.org> wrote:

> At a Best Bits steering committee meeting on 1 March it was suggested we could start a new fluid working group to coordinate a civil society response the proposed WIPO Broadcasting Treaty, because of the potential impacts of the treaty on Internet video streaming services. Were we to take this on this could overlap a bit with other networks on IP, but I’m not aware that there is any other real coordination of civil society against the Broadcasting Treaty.  So I’m putting it to the group to gauge how much interest there may be from Best Bits participants in working together on this.  If you are interested, please reply and we can take it further.
> 
> Here is some background:
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> https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/12/danger-post-fixation-rights-wipo-broadcasting-treaty
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> I’m also happy to answer any questions about why the potential impacts of the Broadcasting Treaty.
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