The Seventeenth Session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights of the World Intellectual Property Organisation is underway in Geneva (3 – 7th November 2008) to discuss, among other things, exceptions to copyright. (Thanks to Twidox)
The Shuttleworth Foundation has released a working paper explaining the need for Treaty Provisions for Minimum Exceptions and Limitations for Education as part of Implementing the WIPO Development Agenda. Abstract
Education is at the heart of development. The UN has recognized this fact for quite some time. Implementing the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Development Agenda requires a special focus on how intellectual property rights interact with education. This chapter argues that the Development Agenda presents the right opportunity to create globally applicable minimum exceptions to copyrights for educational purposes. Absent such harmonization, educators and educational institutions around the world will face unnecessary hurdles to facilitating development.
