EU proposal on “authorized entity”

Proposals for revised text for document SCCR23/7
July 20, 2012

(Proposal by the European Union and its Member States)

“authorized entity”:

means a governmental agency, a non-profit entity or non-profit organization that

New alternative: means a governmental entity; a [non-profit] educational or teaching institution; or a non-profit organization, including non-governmental organizations and entities [authorized/recognized/enabled] by the governments [pursuant to national law in conformity with this [instrument/treaty]] that address the needs on a non-profit basis of beneficiary persons as one of its activities or institutional obligations, including providing them with services relating to education instructional training, adaptive reading or information access needs, in accordance with national law.

a) has as one of its primary missions activities to assist beneficiary persons by providing them services relating to education, training, adaptive reading, or information access needs; and

b) establishes and follows rules and procedures

i) to establish that the persons it serves are beneficiaries persons;
ii) to limit to beneficiary persons its distribution and making available of accessible format copies;
iii) to discourage the reproduction, distribution and making available of unauthorized copies and, when necessary to, to address it, in particular by stopping the supply of accessible format copies to authorized entities and/or beneficiary persons;
iv) to maintain reasonable care in, and records of, its handling of copies of works; and
v) to enable the transmission of anonymous and aggregated data of records to rightholders on request.

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