[20080125]RS22585_WIPO保护广播组织条约.pdf

1 Rome Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and BroadcastingOrganizations (Rome Convention), the Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights Agreement ofthe World Trade Organization (WTO TRIPS) and the Brussels Convention Relating to theDistribution of Program-Carrying Signals Transmitted by Satellite (Brussels Convention).Order Code RS22585Updated January 25, 2008WIPO Treaty on the Protection ofBroadcasting Organizationsname redactedLegislative AttorneyAmerican Law DivisionSummaryBecause existing international agreements relevant to broadcasting protections donot cover advancements in broadcasting technology that were not envisioned when theywere concluded, in 1998 the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights(SCCR) of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) decided to negotiateand draft a new treaty that would extend protection to new methods of broadcasting, buthas yet to achieve consensus on a text. In recent years, a growing signal piracy problemhas increased the urgency of concluding a new treaty, resulting in a decision to restrictthe focus to signal-based protections for traditional broadcasting organizations andcablecasti