[ddots-l] Fw: Accessible Devices USA,Canada and the EU attempt to kill treaty to protectblind people'saccess to written material
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- Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 09:42:54 -0400
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protectblind people'saccess to written material
: USA, Canada and the EU attempt to kill treaty to protect blind people's
: access to written material Posted by Cory Doctorow, May 29, 2009 1:52 AM
: permalink 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), introduced by Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay. This should be a slam
: dunk: who wouldn't want a harmonized system of copyright exceptions that
: ensure that it's possible for disabled people to get access to the written
: word?
:
: The USA, that's who. The Obama administration's negotiators have joined
with
: a rogue's gallery of rich country trade representatives to oppose
protection
: for blind people. Other nations and regions opposing the rights of blind
: people include Canada and the EU.
:
: Update: Also opposing rights for disabled people: Australia, New Zealand,
: the Vatican and Norway.
:
: Update 2: Countries that are on the right side of this include, "Latin
: American and Caribbean region including (Uruguay, Argentina, Chile,
Jamaica)
:
: as well as Asia and Africa."
:
: Update 3: Canada is upset with me. That's fine, I'm upset with Canada.
:
: Activists at WIPO are desperate to get the word out. They're tweeting
madly
: from the negotiation (technically called the 18th session of the Standing
: Committee on Copyright and Related Rights) publishing editorials on the
: Huffington Post, etc.
:
: Here's where you come in: this has to get wide exposure, to get cast as
: broadly as possible, so that it will find its way into the ears of the
: obscure power-brokers who control national trade-negotiators.
:
: I don't often ask readers to do things like this, but please, forward this
: post to people you know in the US, Canada and the EU, and ask them to
: reblog, tweet, and spread the word, especially to government officials and
: activists who work on disabled rights. We know that WIPO negotiations can
be
: overwhelmed by citizen activists -- that's how we killed the Broadcast
: Treaty negotiation a few years back -- and with your help, we can make
: history, and create a world where copyright law protects the public
: interest.
:
: I am attending a meeting in Geneva of the World Intellectual Property
: Organization (WIPO). This evening the United States government, in
: combination with other high income countries in "Group B" is seeking to
: block an agreement to discuss a treaty for persons who are blind or have
: other reading disabilities. The proposal for a treaty is supported by a
: large number of civil society NGOs, the World Blind Union, the National
: Federation of the Blind in the US, the International DAISY Consortium,
: Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic (RFB&D), Bookshare.Org, and groups
: representing persons with reading disabilities all around the world.
:
: The main aim of the treaty is to allow the cross-border import and export
of
: digital copies of books and other copyrighted works in formats that are
: accessible to persons who are blind, visually impaired, dyslexic or have
: other reading disabilities, using special devices that present text as
: refreshable braille, computer generated text to speech, or large type.
:
: These works, which are expensive to make, are typically created under
: national exceptions to copyright law that are specifically written to
: benefit persons with disabilities...
:
: The opposition from the United States and other high income countries is
due
: to intense lobbying from a large group of publishers that oppose a
"paradigm
: shift," where treaties would protect consumer interests, rather than
expand
: rights for copyright owners.
:
: The Obama Administration was lobbied heavily on this issue, including
: meetings with high level White House officials. Assurances coming into the
: negotiations this week that things were going in the right direction have
: turned out to be false, as the United States delegation has basically read
: from a script written by lobbyists for publishers, extolling the virtues
of
: market based solutions, ignoring mountains of evidence of a "book famine"
:
: and the insane legal barriers to share works.
:
:
:
:
PLEASE READ THIS FOOTER AT LEAST ONCE!
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