WIPO Still On Course For Instruments On Copyright Exceptions, Broadcasting; Intellectual Property Watch, 12

William New, Intellectual Property Watch; WIPO Still On Course For Instruments On Copyright Exceptions, Broadcasting:

"The World Intellectual Property Organization late last night reached agreement on a timeline for completing treaties – or instruments – on a range of copyright exceptions, including the possibility of a high-level negotiation for visually impaired and blind readers in 2013...

The 24th WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) met from 16-25 July.

The meeting addressed emerging instruments on broadcasters’ rights, and exceptions for visually impaired persons, libraries and archives, and educational and research institutions.

The conclusions document from the meeting shows the timelines of the different topics over the next biennium. The conclusions document is available here [pdf]."

WIPO Copyright Committee Agrees To Extra Time On Visually Impaired Access; Intellectual Property Watch, 11/15/10

Kaitlin Mara, Intellectual Property Watch; 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."

http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2010/11/15/wipo-copyright-committee-agrees-to-extra-time-on-visually-impaired-access/

WIPO Copyright Committee In Fight To Overcome Differences On Exceptions, Limitations; Intellectual Property Watch, 11/12/10

Kaitlin Mara, Intellectual Property Watch; WIPO Copyright Committee In Fight To Overcome Differences On Exceptions, Limitations:

"On the World Intellectual Property Organization committee on copyright’s final day of weeklong negotiations, the hopes of visually impaired readers and others – librarians, schools – looking for an agreement on copyright exceptions and limitations hang on whether delegates can resolve differences and create a plan for future work."

http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2010/11/12/wipo-copyright-committee-in-fight-to-overcome-differences-on-exceptions-limitations/