Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 8, 2009
Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay joined together to propose that WIPO consider this treaty. During the meeting in Geneva, there was worrisome rhetoric coming from the advocacy community, like the Boing Boing post USA, Canada and the EU attempt to kill treaty to protect blind people's access to written material.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 24, 2010
This was first introduced (to my knowledge) in the Stakeholder's Platform discussions, which were the quickly ginned-up alternative option created in response to the original introduction at WIPO of the Treaty for the Visually Impaired ("TVI") by Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay (and now co-sponsored by Mexico). The concept of TIs uses U.S.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 14, 2009
The hot topic was the proposal made by Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay, for a global treaty (a treaty for which I was part of the expert drafting team). But, the advocacy groups present in Geneva felt that the U.S. I think that the advocacy community has an opportunity to continue to lobby the U.S.
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