Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 21, 2010
Hot issue this week are the now four proposals on solving the problem of access to print by people with print disabilities globally: The TVI: the treaty sponsored originally by the World Blind Union and supported at WIPO by Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay and Mexico. [I I was one of the co-drafters of the treaty language] The U.S.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 25, 2014
What if we applied Joi’s agile, bottom-up innovation approach to the global development challenge posed by Chris? What’s new and timely is the opportunity to apply them globally with philanthropic support by making technology suitable and relevant to the lives of the world’s most underprivileged communities.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 8, 2009
We've been supportive of an effort by the World Blind Union to get an international treaty in place that sets up a global system much like the one we have today in the United States. Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay joined together to propose that WIPO consider this treaty.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 24, 2010
A hot topic at the SCCR20/WIPO discussions in Geneva on global access to materials by the print disabilities is the term "Trusted Intermediaries"("TIs"). The concept of TIs uses U.S. and similar copyright exceptions as a starting point. In the U.S. This is a crucial point.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 14, 2009
We believe that print disabled people should be able to buy accessible books at the same time and at the same price as nondisabled people. But, we’re not willing to lose the copyright exemption and let down the next two or three generations of print disabled people during the transition to equal access nirvana!
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 10, 2009
The one incredibly newsworthy item was Kareem emailed me (during the meeting) a statement he drafted on the topic of the Global Treaty that was discussed in late May at the SCCR event at the World Intellectual Property Organization. But engagement can be severely limited when information is not available in accessible formats.
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