[A2k] James Boyle: Obama in Cyberspace (FT)

[Robert Martinengo]

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Manon Ress<manon.ress@keionline.org> wrote=
:
> Obama in cyberspace By James Boyle
... But the final straw may be the Obama administration=92s opposition
to a proposal on copyright exceptions for the visually impaired. ...
It is backed by a number of developing countries and opposed =96 quietly
=96 by the US and most of the European Union....

What is the deal here people? I will pay $10 to the first person who
provides proof that the Obama administration opposes, quietly or
otherwise, the WBU treaty (that is, a documented comment from a
government official, not James Love's tweets from Geneva). Get it
right or get off it already.

People might want to read what Maria Pallante from the US Copyright
Office wrote on Jim Fruchtermans blog:

"...In the months ahead, we also will be looking at the Chafee
Amendment to see how it (and other provisions of U.S. law) would
interact with the treaty proposal that was tabled by Brazil, Ecuador
and Paraguay at the WIPO meeting. Because copyright treaties are
implemented through the national laws of member states, this is an
essential step in analyzing the proposal and one for which the U.S.
government will continue to solicit the views of stakeholders...."

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