KEI Closing statement at Marrakesh

KEI Closing statement
Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons who are Blind, Visually Impaired, or otherwise Print Disabled
June 27, 2013
Diplomatic Conference in Marrakesh Morocco

This was read by James Love (a video of this available here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNcnx0iME1U)

Mr. President. KEI is a non-profit organization that focuses on human rights and the public interest in the governance of knowledge.

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WIPO Diplomatic Conference: Views on the outcome of the Marrakesh treaty for the blind

Knowledge Ecology International is holding a side event in Marrakesh on Thursday, 27 June 2013 at 2:00 PM in Karam 4 at the Palais des congrès entitled, Views on the outcome of the Marrakech treaty for the blind.

Moderator:

Ellen ‘t Hoen (legal advisor, KEI)
Speakers:

Krista Cox (Staff Attorney, KEI)
Alan Adler (Vice President, Legal and Government Affairs, AAP)
Gopa Kumar (Legal advisor, TWN)
Jens Bammel (Secretary General of the International Publishers Association)
Jonathan Band (policybandwidth)

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KEI statement on the Marrakesh agreement on copyright exceptions for blind persons

We are very happy with the agreement. There were a few areas where the treaty could have been better, but these are areas of minor quibbles. The first order issues all went in favor of blind persons. The treaty will provide a dramatic and massive improvement in access to reading materials for persons in common languages, such as English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Arabic, and it will provide the building blocks for global libraries to service blind persons. Continue Reading

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Digital copy of text on Marrakesh treaty for the blind, as approved by Committee 1

Attached here is the text from Committee 1, which now goes to the drafting committee for a technical scrub, and which then will be formally approved on Thursday, and signed on Friday.

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Diplomatic Conference to Conclude a Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works by Visually Impaired Persons and Persons with Print Disabilities

Marrakech, June 17 to 28, 2013

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The June 25, 10am version of the text

Diplomatic Conference to Conclude a Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works by Visually Impaired Persons and Persons with Print Disabilities
Marrakech, June 17 to 28, 2013

DRAFT TEXT OF AN INTERNATIONAL TREATY ON LIMITATIONS AND EXCEPTIONS FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS/PERSONS WITH PRINT DISABILITIES

INFORMAL CONSOLIDATION PREPARED BY SECRETARIAT, June 25, 2013, 10:00am
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Consolidated text, as of June 22, 2013

John E. Miller provided this OCR version of the text that was downloaded from IP-Watch.

Diplomatic Conference to Conclude a Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works by Visually Impaired Persons and Persons with Print Disabilities
Marrakech, June 17 to 28, 2013

DRAFT TEXT OF AN INTERNATIONAL TREATY ON LIMITATIONS AND EXCEPTIONS FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS/PERSONS WITH PRINT DISABILITIES

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Marrakesh Diplomatic Conference on a Treaty for the Blind: Views of observers on hot button issues

Knowledge Ecology International is holding a side event in Marrakesh on 24 June 2013 at 2:00 PM in Karam 4 at the Palais des congrès entitled, “Views of observers on the hot button issues contained in the Marrakesh Treaty Text”.

Moderator:
Krista Cox (Staff attorney, KEI)

Speakers:

Maryanne Diamond (President, World Blind Union)

Carlo Scollo Lavizzari (Attorney, International Association of Scientific Technical and Medical Publishers)

Pranesh Prakash (Policy Director, Center for Internet and Society)

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