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Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights at WIPO

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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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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"). The concept of TIs uses U.S. and similar copyright exceptions as a starting point. In the U.S.

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