United States Alleges WIPO Broadcast Treaty Exceeds General Assembly Mandate, Fails to Endorse Signal-Based Approach

Sean Flynn GENEVA. At this week’s WIPO General Assembly, the United States for the first time alleged that the current draft of the WIPO Broadcast Treaty “exceeds the General Assembly mandate” that it be “signal-based” and limited to “traditional” broadcasters. The US stopped short, however, from calling for a purely signal-based treaty, instead repeating its […]