Documentary History of the Broadcast Treaty in the SCCR (Global Version)

The objective of this study is to systematically map all meetings of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) and the General Assemblies (GA) of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to extract, compile, and organize all relevant statements made Member States regarding the proposed Broadcasting Treaty. The analysis was based on publicly available data from the WIPO website, particularly the official pages dedicated to each SCCR and GA meeting. Our primary focus was on statements recorded in the official "Report" document of each session. When available, we also examined supplementary documents, such as the "Summary by the Chair" or "Conclusions". When analyzing the GAs, we focused on the “Report” and “Report on the SCCR” documents. Links to documents containing relevant information on the Broadcast Treaty were also included at the beginning of each section. To maintain the specificity of this study and avoid overlap with a separate historical research on Limitations and Exceptions, we primarily extracted statements from the section titled "Protection of the Rights of Broadcasting Organizations." Unless explicitly stated otherwise, all statements included in this document are direct quotations from official WIPO records. The findings are organized into two volumes. Volume I includes the Introduction, this Methodology section, and the relevant statements extracted from SCCR/1 to SCCR/PM/2007 (Preparatory Meeting on the Diplomatic Conference on the Protection of the Rights of Broadcasting Organizations), as well as from the first WIPO General Assembly to WO/GA/34 (2007). Volume II covers meetings from SCCR/16 through SCCR/46 and WO/GA/58, incorporating all documents made available for these meetings as of February 15, 2025. The mapping of documents, as well as the extraction and compilation of information, was carried out in February 2025.