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29.05.2009 por Pedro de Paranaguá Moniz

USA, Canada and the EU attempt to kill treaty to protect blind people’s access to written materia

Right now, in Geneva, at the UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization, history is being made. For the first time in WIPO history, the body that creates the world’s copyright treaties is attempting to write a copyright treaty dedicated to protecting the interests of copyright users, not just copyright owners.

At issue is a treaty to protect the rights of blind people and people with other disabilities that affect reading (people with dyslexia, people who are paralyzed or lack arms or hands for turning pages).

28.05.2009 por Pedro de Paranaguá Moniz

FGV’s statement at the SCCR meeting in WIPO

Please find bellow the statement delivered yesterday from the floor at the 18th session of the Standing Committee on Copyrights and Related Rights (SCCR) of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the UN agency specialised in intellectual property.