[Advocacy Advisors] Diplomatic Conference to Conclude a Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works by Visually Impaired Persons and Persons with Print Disabilities

[Mathias Schindler]

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

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Mathias Schindler
Projektmanager
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
web: http://www.wikimedia.de
mail: mathias.schindler at 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.
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