[A2k] Reply comments on WIPO treaty for people who are blind or with reading disabilities

[James Love]

Published on Knowledge Ecology International (http://keionline.org)
Source URL: http://keionline.org/node/709


Dec 4, 2009 reply comments on WIPO treaty for people who are blind or
with reading disabilities
By Manon Ress
Created 4 Dec 2009

Attached are several reply comments to the Copyright Office and the
USPTO regarding the WIPO draft proposal to facilitate access to
copyrighted works for persons, who are blind or have other reading
disabilities, in response to the Federal Register Notice of October 13,
2009.  The deadline for filing was Friday, December 4, 2009. Eventually
the Copyright Office will publish all of the reply comments on the
Internet, and we will provide a link.

We now have comments received from various parties, including:

    * Four reply submissions from Knowledge Ecology International (KEI):
          o Manon Ress [1]
          o Judit Rius Sanjuan [2]
          o James Love [3])
          o Malini Aisola
    * World Blind Union (WBU) [4]
    * African Union for the Blind (AUFB) [5]
    * Google [6], written by William Patry
    * Jim Fruchterman [7], CEO of Benetech and Bookshare
    * George Kerscher [8], Secretary General of the DAISY Consortium
    * Steven M. Rothstein, President of the Perkins School for the Blind
[9], Watertown, Massachusetts
    * Pablo Lecuona [10] from Tiflolibros Argentina
    * A joint filing from consumer groups (Center for Policy Analysis on
Trade and Health (CPATH), Consumer Action, Consumers International,
Public Knowledge and U.S. PIRG [11]),
    * A joint filing from Centre For Internet And Society, The Daisy
Forum Of India And Inclusive Planet [12]
    * A joint filing from EFF, the Internet Archives, the Library
Copyright Alliance and the COSIA [13]


Links:
[1] http://keionline.org/sites/default/files/Ress_Reply_final2.doc
[2]
http://keionline.org/sites/default/files/Jrius_GinsburgBesek_WIPOReply.doc
[3] http://keionline.org/sites/default/files/james_love_reply.doc
[4] http://keionline.org/sites/default/files/WBU_REPLY.doc
[5] http://keionline.org/sites/default/files/AFUB_REPLY.doc
[6] http://keionline.org/sites/default/files/Google.doc
[7]
http://benetech.blogspot.com/2009/12/reply-comments-on-proposed-treaty-for.html
[8]
http://keionline.org/sites/default/files/george_kerscher_daisy_reply.doc
[9] http://keionline.org/sites/default/files/perkins_reply.doc
[10] http://keionline.org/node/699
[11] http://keionline.org/sites/default/files/Consumer_Reply.doc
[12] http://keionline.org/sites/default/files/response_to_US Govt.doc
[13] http://keionline.org/sites/default/files/Replylca-eff-ia-cosla.pdf
[14] http://keionline.org/sites/default/files/Ress_Reply_final2.pdf

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