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Fear Itself
Submitted by jem40000 on 16. June 2011 - 18:17. From the WIPO live-stream transcript in English of the above ULAC remarks: "Why are we so afraid of a treaty in the area of human rights ... And we should clarify what our fear is in coming up with a treaty." My guess is that the international publishing community fears a world where a bestselling book can sell a million or even rarely 10 million units in hard copy and/or digital eBook but there could easily be multiple times that number of copies around the world provided for free in specialized or NON-specialized format via a binding Treaty as the 2 proposed treaties are currently structured. WHO figures provided yesterday by the WBU suggest many hundreds of millions of persons around the world might be eligible to receive free copies of these same books... The wildly successful 3-volume 'Millennium Trilogy' by the late Stieg Larsson is estimated to have sold a combined 53 million books or roughly 20 million copies for each book ... Go figure. ***************** jem says: Your comment is awaiting moderation. 18 June 2011 at 3:03 am As a self-avowed Braille mercenary I believe that the digital ASCII Braille BRF file has been held hostage as a more secure digital specialized format medium to concerns over more desirable mainstream formats such as ePub, DAISY, and the various other non-specialized formats including PDF and RTF and that BRF Braille continues to be so in the current Non-Paper proposal. There is ample precedent in multiple national copyright laws especially that of Japan to buttress this assertion. The inherent security or non-desirability of any file will always out-simplify digital fingerprints, watermarks, encryption, extensive database maintenance, or other possible trust compliance measures. Such provisions may be beyond the technical. financial, and human resource means of many of the proposed authorized entities especially in

developing countries and even those small developed country organizations which are the backbone of current accessible format delivery. ****** Your comment has been queued for moderation by site administrators and will be published after approval.

Any other disability ... ANY?

(b) Contracting Parties shall extend the provisions of this Treaty to persons with any other disability who, due to that disability, need an accessible format of a type that could be made under Article 4 in order to access a copyright work to substantially the same degree as a person without a disability. ... but Article 15(b) does not provide any definition of 'other disability'. The US 2000 Census offered this definition of disability: (a) blindness, deafness, or a severe vision or hearing impairment, (sensory disability) and (b) a condition that substantially limits one or more basic physical activities such as walking, climbing stairs, reaching, lifting, or carrying (physical disability). Based on THAT definition, (as of 2005) 21.3% of the US population age 15 or older is classified as having a severe or not-severe disability or: "Of the 291.1 million people in the population in 2005, 54.4 million (18.7 percent) had some level of disability and 35.0 million (12.0 percent) had a severe disability." http://www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/p70-117.pdf **************** jem says: Your comment is awaiting moderation. 14 June 2011 at 5:18 pm As attributed to the American author Mark Twain: I did not have time to write to you a one page letter so I wrote to you a two page letter. I posted last year on Ip-Watch.org at http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2010/09/20/musician-stevie-wonder-justcalls-on-wipo-to-improve-books-access/#comment-3518528 which included a link (on WIPO Vision IP)to a 3 paragraph Braille-based Treaty proposal based on the Copyright Law of Japan and the following comment from Paul Schroeder of the AFB:

Braille generally isnt a problem for rights-holders because obviously only people who are blind will read it However, publishers fear e-text because it is too easily pirated. Also that ASCII BRF Braille files can be read by DAISY players but as this is deemed a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity I guess only the whole enchilada will be acceptable to those seeking to end the famine.

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BTW from statement of USA Geneva Mission, May 27, 2010 re: Draft Consensus Instrument -The U.S. proposal is designed to provide greater certainty in international copyright law. We are pleased to be offering a proposal to establish clear, definite norms for the crossborder sharing of special format copies, according to Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property David Kappos. Favorite (0) Flag as Abusive Permalink | Share it

travel brl 1 Fans Become a fan 07:06 PM on 6/14/2011 Until the US WIPO Delegation withdraws or disavows its 'Draft Consensus Instrument' (WIPO SCCR 20_10) it would seem unlikely diplomatic protocol for them to back a conflicting (WBU/Brazil) binding treaty proposal ... And if there could in fact be adopted and ratified a binding international Treaty that ONLY covered Braille -- as BRF digital ASCII Braille files are readable
********************* travel_brl john e miller #sccr22 To binding treaty advocates: If you call it 'Aide-mmoire' instead of nonpaper maybe the EU and M. Barnier will lighten up.
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#sccr22 looks like the binding-Treaty-only crowd blinked....most all 'non-paper' in US 20_10 and/or

travel_brl john e miller #SCCR22 "(USA) .. a proposal to establish clear, definite norms for the cross-border sharing of special format copies." DKappos 27-5-2010
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travel_brl john e miller #sccr22 sameritech.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/charlt IPA: A non-licensed nonremunerative binding int'l VIP Treaty " ... out of my cold dead hands"
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travel_brl john e miller #sccr22 IPA today: There should be no int'l transfer of eBooks across borders without some form of rights holder approval... ne-e-xt?
17 Jun