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Martín Burt’s Best Kept Secret

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So I was recently taken by surprise when I discovered by mere coincidence that he had become the Chief of Staff for the Interim President of Paraguay, Federico Franco! It was a daring venture: Paraguay was then still under a military dictatorship and it was extremely difficult to advance social work. and Africa.

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Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights at WIPO

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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.

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Reimagining the Power of One Billion Dollars

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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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Copyright treaty in Geneva Advances!

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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.

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Authorized Entities Trusted Intermediaries

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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.

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Fascinating Meeting at the Copyright Office

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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). We just need to make sure that any global treaty that is negotiated doesn’t make things worse for people with disabilities here in the U.S.!

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Breaking News on the Global Treaty from Kareem Dale

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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. Tags: Kareem Dale blind SCCR18 copyright Obama copyfight SCCR global library Bookshare WIPO.

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