Copyright, yours, mine or your ISP's?

[pecunium]

herowlness explains it all for you.

Not really, and I am sure the EFF will have more, but the quick version: the people who sell you your cable, and your ISP, and even places like Blogger and LJ, are beig offered the right to own the copyright, for 50 years, of the things which they "publish" as a side effect of you paying (or not, in the case of MySpace and LJ) to write your thoughts down, share your pictures, show off your kids artwork; the lot.

If this is as it appears, it's a huge grab of private intellectual property. It would make all sorts of things problematic (selling art on E-bay comes immediately to mind).

Look into it.

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[perlmonger.livejournal.com]

See here for more details of the current SoP - there's an LJ feed of the blog at ip_watch that's well worth reading if you've any interest in what WIPO is doing. Looks like webcasting is out of the draft treaty again (for now), but there's no guarantee it'll stay that way...

(an minor irritation that may or may not affect you: they insist on formatting their pages at full screen width, which is a PITA if you have a 1920px screen and run your browser at 820px wide)