Published May 1, 2021, 5:00 AM
The Philippines, through the Permanent Representative to Geneva Ambassador Evan Garcia deposited on April 28, 2021 its Instrument of Accession to the Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances (BTAP). Ambassador Garcia personally handed the instrument of accession to World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Director General Darren Tang at WIPO Headquarters.
“With the accession of the Philippines to the Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances, the Philippines guarantees the expansion of the protection given to its musicians, singers, actors, and performers, providing them a uniform and effective umbrella of protection critical in an ever-shifting world,” Ambassador Garcia said in his statement.
Ambassador Evan Garcia (left) deposits the PH Instrument of Accession to the Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances to WIPO Director General Daren Tang (right).
A new bill on the regulation and protection of access to cultural works in the digital age was presented to France’s Council of Ministers yesterday (8 April).
This text aims to “continue to adapt our law to new uses and (to) protect artists and creators against 21st-century counterfeiting facilitated by streaming, direct downloading or referencing sites”, declared Gabriel Attal, the government spokesman, at the end of the meeting.
A new super-regulator, the Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique (ARCOM) is to be created from the merger of the Haute Autorité pour la diffusion des œuvres et la protection des droits sur Internet (HADOPI) and the Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel (CSA) in order to “step up the fight against pirate sites and to include this action in a broader policy of regulating online content”, according to the Ministry of Culture website.
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