Right to Read for Persons with Reading Disabilities
Submitted by James Love on 12. August 2009 - 10:06
KEI's work on reading disabilities involves two separate projects. On a global level, KEI is working with the World Blind Union and others to advocate for a WIPO treay for persons who are blind or have other reading disabilities. KEI is also a member of the Reading Rights Coalition, which is concerned about efforts to disable text-to-speech functions in ebook readers.
In addition to the links below, quite a bit of important information will be found in other parts of our web page. In particular, there is a wealth of relevant information in our section on the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), including reports and statements from specific meetings of the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) and General Assembly (GA).
The KEI search engine is also a very powerful way to find content on our web page, including the many documents not linked to this page.
U.S. consultation on the WIPO Treaty for Reading Disabilities.
The U.S. Copyright Office and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) have a joint request for comments on the WIPO Treaty for Reading Disabilities.
Information about the public comment is available on the web here:
http://www.copyright.gov/docs/sccr/
The first round of comments were closed on November 13, 2009, and are available on the web here: http://www.copyright.gov/docs/sccr/comments/2009/comments-2/index.html
The reply comments are due by December 4, 2009. To file comments, go to this web page:
http://www.copyright.gov/docs/sccr/comments/index.html
The KEI commentary on the 2009 consultation is available here:
http://keionline.org/r2r/usa2009comments