"Podcasters need to take action now to stop a treaty from the UN's World Intellectual Property Organization that threatens their way of life," says Boing Boing.
The Broadcast Treaty is an attempt to force the world's governments to give a new right to broadcasters, a right to control the use of works they don't own. The Broadcast Right will allow broadcasters to stop you from copying or re-using the programs they transmit, even if those programs are in the public domain, Creative Commons licensed or composed of uncopyrightable facts.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has a protest letter people can sign. Interested parties are asked to email email podcastersandwipo@eff.org
