Controversial Broadcast Treaty Stalls - The long-running but controversial World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) effort to craft a treaty granting new rights to broadcasters and cablecasters appears to have stalled. A recent series of diplomatic meetings in Geneva reportedly failed to make progress in bridging fundamental disagreements over approach and scope, causing negotiators to shelve plans to move forward with a formal diplomatic conference later this year. CDT believes this is a welcome development, as the idea of creating a complex new layer of intellectual-property-like rights is entirely unnecessary and poses unwarranted hurdles to the robust flow of information on the Internet. June 25, 2007

• CDT Policy Post on WIPO Treaty September 08, 2006
• Joint Statement of CDT and other public interest and industry [PDF] September 05, 2006
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