Treaty for blind and other reading disabilities
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.
Official Conclusions from WIPO SCCR 19
Submitted by thiru on 20. December 2009 - 10:59These are the Conclusions of the Nineteenth Session of the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) held in Geneva, Switzerland from December 14 to 18, 2009. The official WIPO link to these Conclusions is: http://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/doc_details.jsp?doc_id=130644
World Intellectual Property Organization
Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR)
Nineteenth Session
Geneva, December 14 to 18, 2009
Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR)
Nineteenth Session
Geneva, December 14 to 18, 2009
CONCLUSIONS
LIMITATIONS AND EXCEPTIONS
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
EU proposal calls for deletion of "treaty" for persons with disabilities at SCCR 19
Submitted by Malini Aisola on 18. December 2009 - 5:23Below is the language of paragraph 7 of the draft conclusions of SCCR 19 contained in the "Draft Conclusions Version 2.0" document distributed this morning:
Friday morning version of the draft conclusions for SCCR 19
Submitted by James Love on 18. December 2009 - 4:21This was distributed early this morning, and we are discussing it now.
World Intellectual Property Organization
Standing Committee On Copyright And Related Rights (SCCR)
Nineteenth Session
Geneva, December 14 to 18, 2009 Version 2.0
December 17, 2009
DRAFT CONCLUSIONS
prepared by the Chair
LIMITATIONS AND EXCEPTIONS
WIPO SCCR: CIS Statement in support of the WBU Treaty
Submitted by Malini Aisola on 16. December 2009 - 9:07Statement of the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Bangalore, on the matter of the Treaty for the Blind, Visually Impaired and other Reading Disabled, proposed by Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay.
16th December, 2009
Statement of Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) at SCCR 19
Submitted by James Love on 16. December 2009 - 5:37Thank you Mr Chairman,
I represent the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), which works to serve the 2 million people with sight loss in UK.
As part of this work, RNIB has a library of some 40,000 books in audio, large print and Braille, which we distribute to reading disabled people.
Most accessible books are made by specialist organisations like ours, even in cases where publishers provide licenses or the source files. These specialist organisations have limited resources, and are very often charities.
WIPO SCCR: ONCE Statement in support of the WBU Treaty
Submitted by Judit Rius on 16. December 2009 - 4:30La Organización Nacional de Ciegos de España (ONCE) agradece la oportunidad que nos ha brindado de tomar la palabra en esta importante sesion del SCCR para pedir el apoyo a la propuesta de tratado de la Union Mundial de Ciegos, organización de la que la ONCE es miembro.
La ONCE da servicio exclusivo a sus afiliados, que han de ser personas ciegas y deficientes visuales con nacionalidad española. Actualmente la ONCE tiene 70000 afiliados, y su número crece en 4000 cada año.
Statement of La Organización Nacional de Ciegos de España (ONCE) at WIPO SCCR 19, in Spanish and English
The National Organization of Spanish Blind Persons, ONCE is the Spanish institution providing services to blind and visually impaired persons. This is their statement at WIPO SCCR 19, in both English and Spanish:
In Spanish
La Organización Nacional de Ciegos de España (ONCE) agradece la oportunidad de tomar la palabra en esta importante sesion del SCCR para pedir el apoyo a la propuesta de tratado de la Union Mundial de Ciegos.
SCCR 19 debate on WIPO treaty for disabilties
Submitted by James Love on 16. December 2009 - 4:29