*Why do US and EU trade negotiators hate the Berne Copyright Limitations and Exceptions?* Submitted by James Love on 20. February 2013 - 0:48 For the past year, a treaty on copyright exceptions for persons who are blind or have other disabilities has been hung up on demands by the European Union to insert provocative language on the so called "three step test" in copyright into the treaty. The Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement is in the middle of a similar dispute, with the US pushing language that would place the three step test on top of all copyright limitations and exceptions, including those set out a particular cases in the Berne Convention. One US State Department employee referred to the three step test as the fundamental basis for copyright. What is the three step test in copyright? Well, there are several. There is a three step in the Berne Convention, created in 1967 to provide for general exceptions to the reproduction rights of authors in areas where the Berne did not have a separate (a particular) standard for the exception. The three step test was modified to focus on right holders in the TRIPS, and modified again in the WCT to acknowledge the importance of the Berne Exceptions, in the WPPT for the rights that it provided, and now in countless new treaties and trade agreements, with some surprisingly variances, many of which are reported here:http://keionline.org/node/1568. [...] Continua qui: http://keionline.org/node/1655