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In 1709 (or was it 1710?) the Statute of Anne created the first purpose-built copyright law. This blog, founded just 300 short and unextended years later, is dedicated to all things copyright, warts and all.

Showing posts with label Exception in favour of visually impaired. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Exception in favour of visually impaired. Show all posts

Thursday, 19 December 2013

Israel publishes bill on disability-related exceptions

From Tamir Afori (a partner in the Tel-Aviv law firm of Gilat, Bareket & Co.) comes news that the Israeli Ministry of Justice has now ...

Tuesday, 21 July 2009

WIPO sets its sights on new deal for the visually impaired

A press release from the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) last week reported on a meeting of Representatives of WIPO member...

Friday, 5 June 2009

Good news for the "reading impaired"

According to WIPO press release UPD/2009/310 , dated Tuesday, received Wednesday, read on Thursday and digested today, "WIPO’s top copy...

Tuesday, 26 May 2009

The visually impaired: a soft target for a WIPO Treaty?

From Howard Knopf's Excess Copyright weblog comes this timely summary of the state of play -- such as it is -- in the quest for an inte...

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