FYI,
Luca Valente
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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
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