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Six Myths about the treaty for people with disabilities that should be debunked next week?
Submitted by Manon Ress on 5. March 2010 - 15:44Next week (March 8-12) delegates from various developing countries will gather in Washington, DC for a week long "INTERNATIONAL TRAINING FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AND COUNTRIES IN TRANSITION ON EMERGING ISSUES IN COPYRIGHT AND RELATED RIGHTS AND ISSUES PERTAINING TO BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS" co-organised by the US Copyright Office and WIPO. We hope that at least 6 Myths about the treaty for people with disabilities proposed by Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay will be clearly debunked once and for all during the training.
WIPO Symposium on the Evolution of the Regulatory Framework of Test Data
Submitted by thiru on 2. February 2010 - 8:25As mentioned, before WIPO is holding a symposium on February 8, 2010 on the "Evolution of the Regulatory Framework of Test Data - From the Property of the Intellect to the Intellect of Property". The symposium will be held from 9:30 AM to 5 PM in Room B of WIPO headquarters.
The program of the symposium can be found here: http://www.wipo.int/edocs/mdocs/mdocs/en/wipo_ip_lss1_ge_10/wipo_ip_lss1...
SCCR 19: Full text of Version 3.0 of "DRAFT CONCLUSION" prepared by the Chair
Submitted by thiru on 18. December 2009 - 9:09Version 3.0 of the "DRAFT CONCLUSIONS" prepared by the Chair is being considered right now at the 19th session of the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR).
World Intellectual Property Organization
Standing Committee On Copyright And Related Rights (SCCR)
Nineteenth Session
Geneva, December 14 to 18, 2009Version 3.0
December 18, 2009DRAFT CONCLUSIONS
prepared by the Chair
LIMITATIONS AND EXCEPTIONS
Version 3.0 of Draft Conclusions of SCCR 19 (Paragraph 7 and 10 on limitations and exceptions)
Submitted by thiru on 18. December 2009 - 8:3618 December 2009
Below is the language of paragraph 7 of the draft conclusions of SCCR 19 contained in the "Draft Conclusions Version 3.0" document distributed this afternoon.
New Ad Hoc Observers for the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (Dec.14-18, 2009)
Submitted by Manon Ress on 9. December 2009 - 11:00There will be new participants at the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (Nineteenth Session) Geneva, December 14 to 18, 2009.
Here is the lists of non-governmental organizations, which have requested to be granted observer status in sessions of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR), according to SCCR’s Rules of Procedure (see document SCCR/1/2, paragraph 10).
- African Union of the Blind (AFUB)
- All India Confederation of the Blind (AICB)
- Asociación Civil Tiflonexos – Biblioteca Tiflolibros (Tiflolibros),
Dec 4, 2009 reply comments on WIPO treaty for people who are blind or with reading disabilities
Submitted by Manon Ress on 4. December 2009 - 18:20Attached are several reply comments to the Copyright Office and the USPTO regarding the WIPO draft proposal to facilitate access to copyrighted works for persons, who are blind or have other reading disabilities, in response to the Federal Register Notice of October 13, 2009.
The deadline for filing was Friday, December 4, 2009. Eventually the Copyright Office will publish all of the reply comments on the Internet, and we will provide a link.
We now have comments received from various parties, including:
In their own words: why they oppose the treaty to facilitate access and sharing of works for people with reading disabilities
Submitted by Manon Ress on 20. November 2009 - 21:16Now that we know who are the people opposed to an international treaty to facilitate access and sharing of accessible formats of works for blind people and people with reading disabilities, let’s read what their arguments against the treaty are.
I was able to highlight 10 main arguments and you can check in their own words below if you do not believe me:
"Who on earth would oppose a treaty to facilitate access to information and knowledge to people with reading disabilities?"
Submitted by Manon Ress on 19. November 2009 - 10:04I am often asked "who on earth would oppose a treaty to facilitate access to information and knowledge to people with reading disabilities?" Please read my selected quotes from the comments posted today on the Copyright office page here. But I would also like to highlight some really positive and supporting comments about the treaty. There are more of them than the negative ones but do they have the same weight?
The American Council of the Blind (ACB) & the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) comments on treaty for access
Submitted by Manon Ress on 14. November 2009 - 11:43The American Council of the Blind (ACB) and the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) submitted their comments in response to a Notice of Inquiry put forth by the United States Copyright Office and the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). ACB is a leading U.S. consumer organization of blind or visually impaired individuals. Access to information is a critical area of interest for ACB, and expanding the availability of accessible format materials is viewed as highly beneficial to the blindness community in the United States and throughout the world.
LCA, EFF, and COSLA filed comments regarding the treaty to facilitate access and sharing for people with reading disabilities.
Submitted by Manon Ress on 14. November 2009 - 6:24The Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) consists of the American Library Association, the Association of College and Research Libraries and the Association of Research Libraries.
Collectively, the ALA, ACRL and ARL represent over 139,000 libraries in the United States employing approximately 350,000 librarians and other personnel.
