Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 16, 2011
Statement of Benetech to the 22nd Session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights at the World Intellectual Property Organization June 15, 2011, Geneva, Switzerland • Greetings from California’s Silicon Valley! We would like to see a global norm comparable to the system that has worked so well in the U.S.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 23, 2010
with print disabilities, with more than 70,000 copyrighted works in our library, the majority of which have been created under the US copyright exception by volunteers, mainly people with disabilities themselves, helping each other. • We now have global permissions for around 8,000 copyrighted books out of our 70,000. •
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 19, 2014
The nexus for this work is the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the United Nations agency that deals with such matters. WIPO Headquarters The event this last week at WIPO in Geneva, Switzerland, was the ninth meeting of the Stakeholder’s Platform, which was set up about the time the original Treaty draft was introduced.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 8, 2013
The third movement is the effort to make copyright exceptions a global norm , thus enabling easy import and export of accessible materials. The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva, Switzerland is currently debating a global treaty to help the blind. thanks to our domestic copyright exception.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 20, 2010
The Global Redesign Initiative is one of the core themes of next week's annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. In general, we have patents and copyrights and trade secrets as commercial objects because we as a society think that it helps bring the benefits of new creations to everyone.
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