The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a specialized agency of the United Nations that promotes the protection of intellectual property throughout the world, is working on a new Broadcasting Treaty. The proposed Treaty would give invasive new rights to broadcasting and web-streaming middlemen and would create a global framework for broadcast flag-style technology mandates. The U.S. delegation at WIPO wants to extend the treaty even further, to include webcasts and retransmissions over the Internet.
Tell Congress to open up this process to proper scrutiny before it's too late!