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Authorized Entities Trusted Intermediaries

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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"). Yet, this is the requirement of the European proposal for TIs here at WIPO! In discussions with the advocacy community here, there's a strong desire to discard this term.

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Copyright treaty in Geneva Advances!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I was part of an expert panel that drafted the original proposed treaty. Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay joined together to propose that WIPO consider this treaty. Bookshare pretty much has been made possible by the Chafee Amendment, a copyright exception provision in U.S.

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Fascinating Meeting at the Copyright Office

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We discussed Chafee, especially in the context of the Amazon text-to-speech brouhaha, and the proposed international treaty that was tabled at the WIPO SCCR meeting in Geneva last month. 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.

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