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IFLA Welcomes WIPO Treaty for Blind and Print Disabled People

Treaty to Improve Access to Published Works for Persons who are Blind, Visually Impaired, or otherwise Print Disabled Following two weeks of negotiations in Marrakesh, Morocco, Member States of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) formally adopted a ‘Treaty to Improve Access to Published Works for Persons who are Blind, Visually Impaired, or otherwise Print Disabled’ on Thursday June 27th 2013.

Continued… | 27 June 2013 | CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Access to information, Access to knowledge, Copyright, Services to the visually impaired, Morocco, WIPO

Week two at the WIPO Diplomatic Conference in Marrakesh

Continued… | 25 June 2013 | CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Access to information, Advocacy, Copyright, Services to the visually impaired, Morocco, WIPO

Intervention by IFLA and EIFL at Diplomatic Conference June 17-28, 2013

Continued… | 21 June 2013 | CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)

Start of WIPO Diplomatic Conference to conclude a treaty for the visually impaired

Continued… | 18 June 2013 | CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Access to information, Access to knowledge, Copyright, Services to the visually impaired, Morocco

Joint Library Statement Urges WIPO Member States to Agree an Effective Treaty for Print Disabled People

Continued… | 11 June 2013 | CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Access to information, Access to knowledge, Copyright, Services to the visually impaired

IFLA attends Informal Session and Special Session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights, 18-20 April 2013

IFLA attends the 2nd special session of the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) on an international treaty on limitations and exceptions for visually impaired persons/persons with print disabilities. Geneva, 18-20 April 2013.

Continued… | 25 April 2013 | Switzerland, SCCR, Copyright

IFLA and CILIP Discuss the Challenges of eBooks in Libraries - Presentations now available

On the 21st of February 2013 the IFLA Management of Library Associations (MLAS) Committee and the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) invited participants to attend a seminar on Ebooks and the challenges faced by libraries titled ‘eBooks in Libraries – A Global Question of Survival?’.

Continued… | 19 March 2013 | United Kingdom, Ebooks, MLAS, CILIP

IFLA attends special session of the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR)

A special session of the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) took place from 18-22 February 2013 in Geneva to reach consensus on the draft text of an international treaty on copyright limitations and exceptions for visually impaired persons and persons with print disabilities.

Continued… | 27 February 2013 | Copyright, Switzerland, CLM, SCCR

UNESCO releases Vancouver Declaration on Digitization and Preservation

UNESCO organized an international conference The Memory of the World in the Digital age: Digitization and Preservation, in September 2012 in Vancouver, Canada.

Continued… | 17 January 2013 | CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Conservation, Cultural heritage, Digital preservation, UNESCO, Vancouver Declaration

Call for nominations: IFLA Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters (CLM)

term of office August 2013 – August 2017

Continued… | 4 January 2013 | CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)

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