Chairman’s non-paper on copyright exceptions for libraries, archives
This is the document being discussed Thursday at #sccr30
Thanks to John E. Miller for the OCR version. Continue Reading
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SCCR30 (Day 4): Discussion heats up on discussions on copyright limitations and exceptions for libraries and archives
During WIPO’s discussions of copyright limitations and exceptions for libraries and archives at the 30th session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR30, the Chair (Martin Moscoso) presented a non-paper, intended to guide discussions. Continue Reading
US Copyright office proposes limits on damages, injunctions, for Orphan Works, contradicting TPP language
The US Copyright Office has proposed limitations on damages and injunctions, when “orphan” copyrighted works are infringed. Continue Reading
Sony referred to “WIPO treaty for blind as “stalking horse” to “denigrate the rights of copyright owners”
In the new Wikileaks archives of leaked Sony documents (Link here), there is a memo (https://wikileaks.org/sony/docs/05/docs/DECE/DECE%20CP1%20-%20ss.doc.pdf), which describes Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) concern over the proposed WIPO treaty for copyright exceptions for persons who are blind or have other disabilities. The memo, undated in the Wikileaks archives, but probably written in 2009, included the following passages:
HRC28: Statement of the European Union- Cultural Rights (Response to SR Report on Copyright and Right to Science and Culture)
On Wednesday, 11 March 2015, Oliver Hall-Allen, First Counsellor, Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations Office in Geneva delivered the following statement in response to the presentation of the Special Rapporteur in the Field of Cultural Rights (Farida Shaheed) on her Report on Copyright policy and the right to science and culture (A/HRC/28/57).
Oliver Hall-Allen (blue tie, white shirt), First Counsellor, Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations Office in Geneva
HRC28: Statement of the United States of America – Cultural Rights (Response to SR Report on Copyright and Right to Culture)
On Wednesday, 11 March 2015, Ambassador Keith Harper, U.S. Representative to the Human Rights Council, delivered the following statement to the 28th Session of the Human Rights Council on the topic of cultural rights. Continue Reading
HRC28: Statement by Farida Shaheed, Special Rapporteur, on Copyright policy and the right to science and culture
On Wednesday, 11 March 2015, Farida Shaheed, the United Nations Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights presented her seminal report on Copyright policy and the right to science and culture (A/HRC/28/57) at the 28th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva.
Highlights from the report’s recommendations include the following:
SCCR 29: Statements by European broadcasters and push back by copyright owners (IFPI & FIAP)
SCCR29 At 3pm, the plenary reconvened and the NGOs made their statements regarding the rights, definitions and concepts of the proposed broadcasting treaty discussed during the informal with the help of charts.
On the public interest side we only had KEI, TACD, EFF and CIS. I will post these statements in another blog. Here are 3 statements that are good examples of what the arguments were for the broadcasters (the European Broadcasting Union) followed by the push back by the IFFPI (representing the music industry) and finally the FIAP (film industry also pushing back).
WIPO General Assembly 2014: No Decision Reached on the Work of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR)
On Tuesday, 30 September 2014, the Secretariat handed out the following text:
Matters relating to the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) Agenda item 15 Decision Paragraph
The WIPO General Assembly
(i) took note of the information contained in document WO/GA/46/5; and
(ii) took note of the statements made by delegations at the 46th session of the WIPO General Assembly in 2014.
WIPO General Assembly 2014: KEI statement on Matters Relating to the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR)
On Wednesday, 24 September 2014, Knowledge Ecology International delivered this intervention on agenda item 15, Matters Relating to the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR)
WIPO General Assembly 2014
15. Matters Relating to the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR)
Statement of Knowledge Ecology International