Hi everyone,
WIPO is currently negotiating a treaty to introduce a new limitation/exception to copyright. The German ministry of justice is keeping us posted with the current wording of the (still not finalized) treaty.
Wikimedia Deutschland has not been participating in any efforts on this matter. We indicated to the ministry early on that we believe every person should be allowed to transform a published work to make it fit his or her current needs and that such copyright limitation/exception should not be restricted to visually impaired persons.
Mathias
-- Mathias Schindler Projektmanager Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. web: http://www.wikimedia.de mail: mathias.schindler@wikimedia.de
Ceterum censeo opera officiales esse liberandam - http://urheberrecht.wikimedia.de/
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.