In 2011, Russia made a very important proposal to the G20 regarding the need for new global norms on copyright. Just a few parts of the message illustrate its ambition.
- to expand the opportunities of right holders to manage and exercise the rights to the results of intellectual activities on the Internet;
- to amend the way of obtaining a right holder’s consent
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The Berne Convention revisions for limitations and exceptions to copyright 2012:1 KEI Research Note August 2012. Revised June 18, 2017. This research note reports on the evolution of each copyright exception found in the Berne Convention for the Protection of… Continue Reading →
Attached below is the new text of the “instrument” for copyright exceptions for disabilties.
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SCCR/24/9 Prov.
ORIGINAL: English
DATE: July 25, 2012
Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights
Twenty?fourth Session
Geneva, July 16 to 25, 2012
REVISED Working Document on an International Instrument on Limitations and Exceptions For Visually Impaired Persons/Persons with Print Disabilities
prepared by the Secretariat
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At WIPO SCCR 24, the negotiations on the text of an “instrument” on copyright exceptions for persons with disabilities appear to be going well. For the past year, the delegates have been close on the substantive issues, focusing on a handful of important nuances in the ways that beneficiaries of the agreement are defined, the types of works and rights covered, wording on safeguards, provisions for developing countries, and other technical issues such as the relationship to the Berne and TRIPS three step test. Continue Reading →
Today, July 9, 2012, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court of the United States in support of neither party in the case Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons.
