[bestbits] Best Bits working group on Broadcasting Treaty?

[Carolina Rossini]

This is the page I built while at EFF
https://www.eff.org/issues/wipo-broadcasting-treaty among other resources.
I agree with Nick, that if BB participants are interested in the debate,
there should be a minimal coordination with the Broadcast Treaty coalition.
Maybe a first step would be to ask that coalition which the of action would
be helpful. You are totally right that there is an IG angle to it. So, I do
see a role of BB. But better to identify first which role would be that. C

On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 7:12 AM, Jeremy Malcolm <jmalcolm at eff.org> wrote:

> On Mar 2, 2015, at 12:17 PM, Nick Ashton-Hart <nashton at consensus.pro>
> wrote:
>
>
> 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.
>
>
> It wasn’t my suggestion, it was one of the other WIPO regulars who I guess
> felt that there was an Internet governance perspective missing from those
> dealing with this there.  As you say EFF has been one of those involved at
> WIPO and I’m covering that now; I was at the last meeting and have read
> Gwen’s files.  Perhaps having participants from Best Bits join the existing
> list could work equally well so thanks for telling people about that, but I
> will go back to the person who proposed this and get his further thoughts.
>
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