In this copyrighted Reuters story from cNet.com, the United Nations has added more fuel to the world wide file trading fire. Are copyrights enforceable world wide? Are copyrights enforceable at ALL in the age of digital media? I wonder if the battle is already lost.
“GENEVA — A groundbreaking international pact to protect musicians and the multibillion-dollar recording industry from Internet piracy will finally go into effect in May, a United Nations agency announced Thursday.
Over five years after the treaty was signed, the needed number of ratifications for it to be enforced was achieved Feb. 20 when Honduras became the thirtieth country formally to join, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) said.
The treaty, the WIPO Phonograms and Performances Treaty (WPPT), bars the unauthorized exploitation of recorded or live performances on the Web.
It formally takes effect May 20.
Together with a sister pact on protecting the copyright of authors and publishers, due to come into force in March, the new treaty will bring “international copyright law into line with the digital age,” WIPO said in a statement.”
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