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KEI comments to UK Consultation on limitations and exceptions for persons with print disabilities under discussion at WIPO
Submitted by Manon Ress on 6. September 2011 - 15:20The proposal for a WIPO treaty for persons who are blind or have other disabilities moved forward at the last SCCR meeting in June 2011, when a wide collection of high income and Latin American countries endorsed a joint paper that could serve as a basis for a diplomatic conference. The fact that Brazil, the US and the EU were among the countries endorsing the paper was very significant.
SAVE THE DATE (10 November 2010): What should the WIPO SCCR do about limitations & exceptions: the way forward?
Submitted by thiru on 9. November 2010 - 9:50On 10 November 2010, Knowledge Ecology International will hold a side event from 13:30 to 14:45 in the Uchtenhagen room at WIPO which shall address the question, "What should the WIPO SCCR do about limitations & exceptions: the way forward"? Speakers include representatives from the Centre for Internet & Society, Egypt, the International Publishers Association, KEI and the South Centre. This is an open event. Please see below for details.
What should the WIPO SCCR do about limitations & exceptions: the way forward?
Invitation to the KEI side bar event
Why would blind people get less than the Olympic Committee? Choosing between Convention, Recommendation and Declaration
Submitted by Manon Ress on 22. March 2010 - 17:24When I first heard David Mann representing the World Blind Union at the information session of November 2003 SCCR, call for the "creation of international agreements which would allow the unhindered transfer of accessible material created in one country to blind and partially sighted people in another country", I did not know that this issue had been the subject of a WIPO/UNESCO report in 1983, which had then proposed Model Provisions Concer
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.
Key dates for WIPO negotiations in 2010
Submitted by thiru on 6. January 2010 - 6:31On December 21, 2009, WIPO sent out a circular note (C.N 3066) indicating "provisional dates for the principal committees and bodies of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) that will meet in 2010".
Here are provisional dates of key negotiations to bear in mind when planning your agenda for 2010.
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WIPO Standing Committee on the Law of Patents, SCP, (14th session): January 25-29, 2010.WIPO Standing Committee on the Law of Patents, SCP, (15th session): October 11-15, 2010
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Benetech & Bookshare file with LOC and USPTO on WIPO treaty for reading disabilities
Submitted by Manon Ress on 13. November 2009 - 20:51Today Benetech, a leading Silicon Valley technology nonprofit and operator of the Bookshare online library for people with print disabilities submitted comments to the US Copyright Office and the USPTO on the topic of access to copyrighted works for people with print disabilities. Here are the major points, the submission is attached at the end of this blog.
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and WIPO Treaty for Sharing Accessible Formats of Copyrighted Works
Submitted by Manon Ress on 18. September 2009 - 11:10In a February 2009 article, I described why we need a Word Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) treaty for people with reading disabilities and why the US delegation at WIPO should support the WBU proposal and even become a leading force promoting it in its new form, a proposal by the governments of Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay tabled at WIPO in May 2009.
2009 Proposal by Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay, Relating to Limitations and Exceptions: Treaty Proposed by the World Blind Union
Submitted by Staff on 12. August 2009 - 15:22On May 25, 2009, Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay (BEP) submitted a formal proposal at the WIPO SCCR 18, asking that the SCCR consider a proposal for a treaty that was presented to the SCCR in 2008 by the World Blind Union. In 2010, the government of Mexico joined as a co-sponsor of the treaty proposal.
Below is the text of the BEP submission at WIPO:
WIPO STANDING COMMITTEE ON COPYRIGHT AND RELATED RIGHTS
Eighteenth Session Geneva, May 25 to 29, 2009
Final conclusions of WIPO SCCR 18
Submitted by James Love on 29. May 2009 - 12:58These are the final conclusions of SCCR 18.
World Intellectual Property Organization
SCCR Eighteenth Session
Geneva, May 25 to 29, 2009
CONCLUSIONS OF THE SCCR
prepared by the Chair
Limitations and exceptions
Group B efforts to block discussion of treaty
Submitted by James Love on 29. May 2009 - 2:17Group B has offered amendments to a proposed conclusion for the WIPO SCCR 18 meeting. The amendments are designed to eliminate any agreement to discuss a treaty for blind and reading disabled persons at the next meeting of the SCCR. The United States, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Norway, the Holy See (the Vatican), the members of the European Union and other high income countries have joined in this statement. Later the EU offered an even blunter opposition to the treaty proposals. I have blogged about our disappointment in the Obama Administration on the Huffington Post here.
