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[News] Intellectual Monopolies Harm Blind People

  • Subject: [News] Intellectual Monopolies Harm Blind People
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:56:04 +0000
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Intellectual Monopolists Scorn the Blind 

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| This, then, is the reality of "modern" 
| copyright: it fails to serve huge numbers 
| of people, many of whom are already 
| suffering from discrimination in other 
| ways.
| 
| Given this situation, various 
| organisations are not unreasonably trying 
| to facilitate access to copyrighted works 
| for those who are visually disabled with a 
| new WIPO treaty that would define basic 
| rights for this group. Who could object to 
| such a humanitarian cause? Well, the 
| publishers, of course.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/12/intellectual-monopolists-scorn-blind.html


Recent:

USA, Canada and the EU attempt to kill treaty to protect blind people's access
to written material

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| Right now, in Geneva, at the UN's World Intellectual Property Organization,
| history is being made. For the first time in WIPO history, the body that
| creates the world's copyright treaties is attempting to write a copyright
| treaty dedicated to protecting the interests of copyright users, not just
| copyright owners.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/05/29/usa-canada-and-the-e.html
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