Attached 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:

• Four reply submissions from Knowledge Ecology International (KEI):
  • Manon Ress
  • Judit Rius Sanjuan
  • James Love
  • Malini Aisola
• World Blind Union (WBU)
• African Union for the Blind (AUFB)
• Royal National Institute of Blind People’s (RNIB)
• Google, written by William Patry
• Jim Fruchterman, CEO of Benetech and Bookshare
• George Kerscher, Secretary General of the DAISY Consortium
• Steven M. Rothstein, President of the Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown, Massachusetts
• Pablo Lecuona from Tiflolibros Argentina
• A joint filing from consumer groups (Center for Policy Analysis on Trade and Health (CPATH), Consumer Action, Consumers International, Public Knowledge and U.S. PIRG),
• A joint filing from Centre For Internet And Society, The Daisy Forum Of India And Inclusive Planet
• A joint filing from A joint filing from the Library Copyright Alliance, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Internet Archive, and Chief Officers of State Library Agencies