The Broadcast Flag is back, and it's bigger and it's crazier and it's stronger and, almost incredibly, it's even more un-Constitutional than before!

There is more to the Netcaster's Treaty than the Broadcast Flag. The Netcasters's Treaty would take away copyright from authors and hand copyright-like powers to all "netcasters".

And there is even more to the treaty than the Broadcast Flag and the attack on copyright. The treaty would grant "netcasters" power to prevent distribution of works in the public domain, just because the "netcaster" puts the work into a "netcast".

The much-derided Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) became United States law in 1998 as a fulfillment of treaty obligations enacted in the same way the Netcasters Treaty is being pursued -- and the Netcasters Treaty is far worse.

We can't let that happen again.

Read the entire alert from NY Fair Use. Then act on it! The alert page has a web form you can use to write a letter to congress.

I'm in Washington DC working on this today. Your support would help me get something done. Please, send a comment to your congress person right now. - Bruce Perens