[A2k] Malaysia on limitations and exceptions: WIPO 2009 General Assembly

[Thiru Balasubramaniam]

http://keionline.org/node/616

Malaysia on limitations and exceptions: WIPO 2009 General Assembly

Here is the except of Malaysia's intervention at the WIPO General
Assembly made yesterday during discussion of the WIPO Standing
Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR). This excerpt shows
Malaysia's position on limitations and exceptions.

"Mr. Chairman,

On the issue of limitations and exceptions, Malaysia fully shares the
concerns acknowledged by the SCCR of the special needs of visually
impaired people. The WIPO Secretariat had undertaken several
praiseworthy efforts on this issue, such as getting inputs from the
Questionnaire, taking stock of country positions and organizing the
stakeholder platform. The Visually Impaired are those who need the
world community's humanitarian sympathy as well. They too deserve the
right to access to education and should not be kept away as a deprived
group. In this connection, Malaysia hopes WIPO would move forward in
its efforts to conclude a treaty for the visually impaired."

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Thiru Balasubramaniam
Geneva Representative
Knowledge Ecology International (KEI)
thiru@keionline.org


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