[drn-discuss] Fwd: Update from Jamie Love on the 'casting treaty

[James Heald]

James Heald wrote:
> This looks like something that needs urgent action, if things are not to 
> go seriously off the rails -- it looks like there is very heavy pressure 
> from the U.S. for heavy new rights for broadcasting and internet-casting 
> intermediaries.

Further to this, there's a nice short summary today by Donna Wentworth 
on Corante:

"One IP right to rule them all"
http://www.corante.com/copyfight/archives/2005/09/19/one_ip_right_to_rule_them_all.php


A link at the end, to this piece by Ernest Miller from April last year, 
really brings home just how nasty this piece of legislation could be 
(being brought in with next to no public awareness or debate):

"The Broadcast Flag Treaty - Draft Available"
http://www.corante.com/importance/archives/002925.html