Verizon joins opponents of IPR proposal for broadcasters.(News)

RCR Wireless News, September, 2006

Verizon Communications Inc. is one of three dozen technology companies that have joined forces to oppose a plan to give broadcasters new intellectual property rights to audiovisual material. Verizon, AT&T Corp., Dell Inc., Intel Corp., TiVo Inc. and others are lobbying against a "broadcast treaty'' being considered by the United Nations' World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

The plan aims to protect broadcasters from piracy of digital content signals by creating a new class of intellectual property rights. Proponents of the effort say the treaty is necessary to address cross-border signal piracy, where channels shown in one geographic market are pirated and rebroadcast in others without permission. The plan builds on the 1961 Rome...

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