[A2k] Blog: Who should benefit from a WIPO Treaty for Reading Disabled Persons?

[Claude Almansi]

Hi Manon and All

Art 15 (b) of the proposal:

On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Manon Ress <manon.ress@keionline.org> wrot=
e:
> (...)
>
> =C2=A0 Article 15. Disabilities Covered
> =C2=A0 (...)
> =C2=A0 (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.

also covers dyslexic people who use text-to-speech tech or need a
header-structured version  of a text to navigate it more easily. But
does it cover circumventing the protection of a video to add captions
to it for deaf or hearing-disabled people, as " to access a copyright
work to substantially the same degree as a person without a
disability" apparently does?

And about circumventing, please excuse my ignorance, but does the
screen capture of a video count as circumventing? For instance as
Bernard Maltais did in <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D9teXTUXwkEw> -
and I in <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DGHjcyt4q0ow> -  in order to
demonstrate the absurdity of Eric Cl=C3=A9menceau's claim that it was
impossible to copy a Joost video?  We carefully kept the
screen-captured extracts very brief in order to be able to claim fair
use should the right holders wish to sue us, but did we "circumvent"
Joost's protections?

Best

Claude