WIPO comes with copyright exceptions for the blind closer to the goal
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The committee responsible for the copyright of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), the WIPO General Assembly proposed a new draft (PDF file) for an international exemption for the blind file. An extraordinary General Assembly shall by 18 Give green light December for the necessary treaty conference. Now it is hardly realistic to assume that instead of a binding international agreement to all members of a simple recommendation is pronounced.
The exemption provides that in future specially authorized organizations such as libraries should be allowed to make accessible for the blind versions of legally acquired works, without permission of the copyright owner.
Such copies are can also be exported and imported. For victims associations in developed countries like the law is at the center, a book on the same day and at the same price to get as any other can. The European and World Blind Union (WBU) speak of a Büchernot because the market is not responding to the needs. From the perspective of the developing countries of the transnational exchange among libraries or about initiatives is important.
Developed countries demand in one of the main issues are still open, that a work may only be made accessible to the disabled, if it is not commercially available. But that was not in the U.S. or Europe yet included in national copyright exceptions, outraged former MEP David Hammerstein, who represents the Trans-Atlantic Consumer Dialogue in the WIPO negotiations. "This is a clear case of regulatory shopping, be incorporated in the law through the back door of international arrangements, the nation could not be enforced."
Hammerstein also criticized the EU to ensure that it did not, despite many statements last valid set of those on the side, the call for a binding international treaty law. "In three years, the EU has not made a single proposal which improves access for the blind", thunders Hammerstein. Some organizations are concerned that the rich countries could move a contract on. "I'm disappointed," said James Love, director of the activist organization Knowledge Ecology International, "that the U.S. government has still not set to an agreement, even though they can have it all their red lines and could have deleted passages from the draft text. " Among other things during the recent negotiations it was agreed that Dove should not benefit from the copyright exceptions.
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