WIPO SCCR 28 Day 1: The European Union Statement regarding 3 topics: broadcasting, L&E for Libraries and Education
sccr 28 Day 1: The European Union Statement regarding the 3 topics: boradcasting, L&E for Libraries and Education
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WIPO SCCR28 Day 1: Support for a Broadcasting Treaty Diplomatic Conference in 2015?
Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights: Twenty-Eighth Session
SCCR/28 June 30 to July 4, 2014 (Geneva, Switzerland)
June 30, 2014. Morning Session
to read the close captioning of SCCR28
http://www.streamtext.net/player?event=WIPO
password: sccr28 during the meeting
Watch live: Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights – ow.ly/yAzbf. #SCCR28
Find a few comments and selected interventions:
Videos from TACD’s June 25, 2014 side event on intellectual property in the US, EU trade agreement (TTIP)
The following are videos from TACD’s June 25, 2014 side event on intellectual property and the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) agreement. Continue Reading
TTIP: Anti-Transparency Rules laid out in USTR letter to DG-Trade
KEI has obtained the terms of reference (TOR) for the confidentiality of the negotiating texts of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) Agreement. The TOR are laid out in a two-page letter from US Chief Negotiator Dan Mullaney to EU Chief Negotiator Ignacio Garcia-Bercero which is available here. The letter was obtained through a FOIA request filed by KEI with the USTR on May 19, 2014.
WTO TRIPS Council (June 2014): USTR submission on Non-Violation Complaints Under the TRIPS Agreement
On 10 June 2014, the United States tabled a paper (IP/C/W/599) to the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) TRIPS Council on “Non-Violation Complaints Under the TRIPS Agreement.” This paper is expected to be discussed at the TRIPS Council today (11 June 2014) under agenda item 7 on “Non-Violation and Situation Complaints.”
As previously mentioned in our February 2014 piece,
Call for Action on Cancer Drugs by YP-CDN, KEI, and UAEM at 67th World Health Assembly
At the opening of the 67th World Health Assembly, today the Young Professionals Chronic Disease Network (YP-CDN), Knowledge Ecology International (KEI), and Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM) released a briefing, “Cancer medicines are essential in reducing the global burden of non-communicable diseases.”
Is Resale Right on the Work Program for SCCR? Maybe.
May 2, 2014, during “other matters” to be discussed at the WIPO SCCR, some observers and delegates were a little surprised by the number of delegations who spoke in favor of adding “resale Rights” to the agenda of next SCCR sessions. However, some of the observers and delegates were not at all surprised having observed this week the diligent work of a CISAC representative with various key delegates.
SCCR 27 Difficult Discussion re Orphan Works & Author Right to Withdraw Work from Circulation
ORPHAN WORKS, RETRACTED AND WITHDRAWN WORKS, AND WORKS OUT OF COMMERCE
May 1, 2014 SCCR TOPIC 7
The discussion regarding orphan works included the rather difficult and political topic of moral rights and the right to withdraw a work from circulation. Can a library reproduce and make available a work that the author wants withdrawn from the public?
For example the Africa group had proposed:
Right to Access Retracted and Withdrawn Works
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SCCR27: African Group position on Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries and Archives
On Wednesday, 30 April 2014, Kenya delivered the following statement on “Limitations & Exemptions for Libraries and Archives” on behalf of the African Group. In contrast to the European Union, the African Group underscored the point that copyright limitations and exceptions
SCCR 27 Topic 2: Libraries & Archives
After 3pm the SCCR 27 (April 30, 2014) turned to Topic 2: Libraries and archives
In brief, countries supporting progress on a binding instrument on limitations and exceptions for libraries and archives include the Africa Group, Iran, Mexico, India, Bangladesh, Brazil, Ecuador, Morocco, Russia, Tunisia, Chile, Congo…
Representative quote of a proponent:
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