Hi all I thought people on these lists might be interested in this post from Electronic Frontiers Australia.
Jessica Coates Project Manager Creative Commons Clinic Queensland University of Technology ph: 07 3138 8301 fax: 07 3138 9395 email: j2.coa...@qut.edu.au -----Original Message----- From: Nicolas Suzor [mailto:n...@suzor.com] Sent: Saturday, 30 May 2009 12:17 AM To: Paul Harpur; Brian Fitzgerald; Jessica Coates; pappalak-forwarding; Elliott Bledsoe Subject: Fwd: Australia opposes treaty to enhance access of blind people to copyright material It appears that Australia is in a group of countries that opposes a WIPO treaty that would introduce some fairly useful exceptions to increase access to copyright material for people with a print disability. See: <http://www.boingboing.net/2009/05/29/usa-canada-and-the-e.html> EFA post at: <http://www.efa.org.au/2009/05/29/australia-opposes-treaty-to-enhance-access-of-blind-people-to-copyright-material/> The draft treaty <http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:7RU2sOmK8ikJ:www.wipo.int/edocs/mdocs/copyright/en/sccr_18/sccr_18_5.doc+wipo+sccr+18+5&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk> includes several important clauses, including: * an exception to copyright infringement for non-profit supply of accessible versions of works to which a person with a print disability already has access in a non-accessible form; * a statutory licence for reasonable for-profit supply; * an exception to anti-circumvention law to allow blind persons to break technological locks that make the work inaccessible; and * most importantly, an exception that allows importing and exporting of accessible versions of copyright works, enabling them to be distributed to blind people in other countries. We (EFA) are urging people to raise awareness and contact the Attorney-General's Department. cheers, nic. _______________________________________________ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l