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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.
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| 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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