Recently, bipartisan leadership of the Senate Judiciary and Foreign Relations Committees, Chairmen Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Bob Corker (R-TN), as well as Ranking Members Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and ...
Today (July 12) at its headquarters in Geneva, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has marked the 10th anniversary of its Marrakesh Treaty. Publishing Perspectives readers are very ...
The Marrakesh Treaty represents the agreement of member nations to pass domestic legislation making important exceptions to their respective copyright laws that will make it easier for books to be ...
The treaty makes work for print-disabled readers movable across frontiers by libraries and other agencies, without approval of copyright holders. Meant “to facilitate access to published works for ...
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On October 10, 2018, President Trump signed the Marrakesh Treaty Implementation Act (“MTIA”), which will allow the United States to join the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works ...
Less than 10 percent of the millions of books published each year are available in formats that make them accessible to blind and visually impaired people, according to the World Blind Union. In the ...
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Justin Hughes gives an insider’s account of the negotiations that led to the landmark Marrakesh Treaty, signed in June On June 28 2013, a new, extraordinary multilateral intellectual property treaty ...
This summer, a diplomatic conference of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), which was held in Marrakesh, Morocco, adopted the “Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works ...
It’s difficult enough already for the visually impaired to read the books and publications sighted people take for granted, but it’s downright impossible when the content isn’t even available in ...
Australia has not yet signed the Marrakesh Treaty and time is running out. China's Nanjing Blind School. EPA/Jerry Lu An estimated 285 million people worldwide are visually impaired. Some 90% of those ...
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