Treaty to make copyrighted works available for visually impaired people – 90% of whom live in global south – coming up against film lobby
Negotiators from 186 countries are in Marrakech this week trying to hammer out the text of an international treaty that aims to make copyrighted works more readily available to the world's blind and visually impaired people, 90% of whom live in the global south.
Observers say the treaty, which has been in the works at the World Intellectual Property Organisation since 2008, is likely to be finalised before the end of this week. But the scope of the treaty, which seeks to lift copyright restrictions on published works in the interest of blind people, has come under intense pressure from one of the most powerful lobbies in the Us: Hollywood.
"The Obama administration has an extremely intimate relationship with the motion picture industry with regard to these negotiations," said James Love, director of Knowledge Ecology International,...
Negotiators from 186 countries are in Marrakech this week trying to hammer out the text of an international treaty that aims to make copyrighted works more readily available to the world's blind and visually impaired people, 90% of whom live in the global south.
Observers say the treaty, which has been in the works at the World Intellectual Property Organisation since 2008, is likely to be finalised before the end of this week. But the scope of the treaty, which seeks to lift copyright restrictions on published works in the interest of blind people, has come under intense pressure from one of the most powerful lobbies in the Us: Hollywood.
"The Obama administration has an extremely intimate relationship with the motion picture industry with regard to these negotiations," said James Love, director of Knowledge Ecology International,...
- 6/25/2013
- by Paige McClanahan
- The Guardian - Film News
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