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16.11.2010 por Koichi Kameda
WIPO Copyright Committee Agrees To Extra Time On Visually Impaired Access
The World Intellectual Property Organization copyright committee has reached an eleventh-hour agreement on a work programme that could help ease access to reading materials for the visually impaired.
The compromise text, reached in negotiations that stretched past midnight on the last evening of the 8-12 November meeting of the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR), stipulates three extra working days for the next three meetings of the SCCR. These three working days will be dedicated to discussions on limitations and exceptions to copyright law. An annexed timetable to the text sets out specific steps for the SCCR to take on these issues over the course of 2011 and 2012.
13.11.2010 por Koichi Kameda
WIPO SCCR 21: the final conclusions
Here are the final conclusions of the 21st session of the WIPO Standing Commitee on Copyright and Related Rights.
12.11.2010 por Koichi Kameda
WIPO SCCR21: proposals on a work program for Copyright E/L submitted by African Group and Group B
During the 3rd day of the WIPO SCCR21, the Group B presented a proposal for a Work Program on copyright exceptions and limitations for the WIPO SCCR. Group B is the negotiation group that groups developed countries like US, EU, Switzerland and others.
08.11.2010 por Koichi Kameda
WIPO Copyright Committee Tackles Visually Impaired Access, Other Exceptions
By William New
The World Intellectual Property Organization Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) is meeting this week in an attempt to advance proposals to improve global access to copyrighted works, following a disappointing summer meeting that ended without agreement. This week’s meeting also includes renewed discussions of proposed treaties on broadcasters’ rights and rights over audiovisual performances.
Participants asked before today’s opening plenary session declined to place high expectations of a breakthrough agreement on differences such as how to move forward on a proposed treaty increasing visually impaired readers’ access to online books, while not leaving behind other exceptions and limitations to copyright such as the needs of libraries. The SCCR is meeting from 8-12 November.
08.11.2010 por Joana Varon
Brazilian Internet regulation: new challenges imposed by misguided cybercrime draft bill
The future of Internet in Brazil is passing through a crucial moment. A wave of massive criminalization intents seemed to be left behind since civil society movements managed to block a Draft Bill on Cybercrimes (known as PL Azeredo) and the Ministry of Justice installed an online public consultation for establishing a Civil Rights Based Framework. But it was only the first round. Although apparently rejected, the Criminal Draft Bill returned on a sneaky way.
After being heavily criticized, sparking an opposition movement known as “Mega Não” (“Huge No”), which gathered nearly 157,000 signatures against it, the project seemed dead and buried in 2009. But between the first and second round of elections, when the focus of public attention was on presidential candidates, the Committee on Constitution and Justice from the Federal Chamber of Deputies brought the bill back to the agenda. They have presented a favorable opinion and a substitutive text under Rapporteur of Deputy Régis de Oliveira, who hasn’t even been re-elected.
The Center for Technology and Society from Fundação Getúlio Vargas Rio analyzed the proposals of the substitutive and has just published a critical study on it. The document, in Portuguese, is available here. But a summary of the critical points goes as follows:
07.11.2010 por Joana Varon
ACTA Faces Criticism at WTO and in the United States
via ICTSD
A nearly concluded multi-country agreement on counterfeiting came under fire at the WTO last week, as some members accused the deal, negotiated among a group of mostly industrialised country governments, of undermining multilateral cooperation and global rules on intellectual property.
The prospective Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is also facing questions within one of its leading proponents, the United States, surrounding uncertainty about whether clauses in the draft deal would contradict US law.
