Subject: Re: Expressions of Folklore
From: Angelique Mattioli - IPG Bibliotheque (library@mail.interpac.be)
Date: ma 15 syys 1997 - 15:30:23 EEST
At 14:19 12/09/97 +0000, you wrote:
>Dear list members,
>
>At the WIPO Permanent Committee of 10 September 1997 it was announced
>that WIPO is looking into the possibility of establishing a sui generis
>right for the protection of expressions of folklore.
>
>In April 1997 WIPO and UNESCO organised a worldwide Forum on Folklore to
>discuss the legal means of protection of folklore in national law,
>economic exploitation of these rights and international protection.
>
>A WIPO Committee of Experts has been established and a Committee meeting
>will be held in September/October 1997.
>
>It was stressed that in a digital context expressions of folklore can be
>used more easily and needs therefore appropriate protection.
When everything will be OVERprotected we will be obliged to pay to dance,
listen to music, read books : how will we get fun ?
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