[0] http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/boths.php

‘Justin (Hughes) was effective in drafting text and in the negotiations. He also spent a great deal of time telling the World Blind Union it was a mistake to push for a treaty, and trying to engineer an outcome that would kill the treaty, which Justin told the WBU was “the camel’s nose” in terms of what would come next.’

Should the SCCR 23/7 document pass in anything resembling its current form, I infer from published remarks that those in the IP rights community believe it would be that much more difficult to oppose the 23/5 library treaty.

“Providing information intended for the general public to persons with disabilities in accessible formats and technologies appropriate to different kinds of disabilities in a timely manner and without additional cost”

However the WIPO TVI (now SCCR23/7) would provide such information at NO cost.

In the USA under Section 121 (Chafee Amendment) accessible materials are provided under prescribed conditions at no cost; similar in the UK even if under required licensing — but at least in USA these privileges were negotiated among the various interests. No one walked in and waved any human rights or even a domestic legislation document and said that the copyright owners were somehow mandated to provide these privileges to copyright exception.

The disabled community may need to find a way to compel cooperation from the EU Commission by somehow making it to the Commission’s DIS-advantage to NOT honor these rights by convention — but the EU/WBU and other groups have as yet not find any way to do so.

I have offered suggestions even published here on this website … oh well.

Thanks by advance!