FYI, Luca Valente ____ Please circulate the important message below about the choice of international instrument which is to be decided at WIPO's Standing Committee on copyright next week as the outcome of the decision, whether to make it a binding Treaty or a non-binding Recommendation, will have significantly different outcomes for the print disabled reading community around the world. You may have seen that the Information Society Project at Yale Law School have produced a paper entitled "Addressing the Proposed WIPO International Instrument on Limitations and Exceptions for Persons with Print Disabilities: Recommendation or Mandatory Treaty?" The paper is now up on the Yale ISP website of working papers:/ http://www.law.yale.edu/intellectuallife/6564.htm Their in-depth analysis shows that the options of soft law and a Two Step Approach (first soft law followed by a possible Treaty as still favoured by USA, Mexico, EU) are both technically inappropriate and totally inadequate as a solution to the challenge of removing copyright as an unreasonable or discriminatory barrier to accessible formats for print disabled readers. The full paper provides lots of material for the negotiations at WIPO next week and is well worth reading in full. Your thoughts on this timely piece of academic research would be interesting as we make our final preparations. Please also encourage your networks to blog and tweet this for us. With kind regards, Christopher Friend WBU Strategic Objective Leader - Accessibility Chair WBU Global Right to Read Campaign Programme Development Advisor Sightsavers T: +44 1444 446663; M: +44 7919 552 170