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Provisions in a proposed international treaty that civil liberties groups, developing nations and technology organizations claim will threaten the free flow of information on the Internet have been sidetracked by the pact's writers in Geneva.The U.N. World Intellectual Property Organization's (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights, which is fashioning a new international treaty on broadcast rights, agreed on Friday to remove from its draft of the pact provisions that would give distributors of webcast content control over that content through a new class of intellectual property rights.
