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-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [A2k] UK IPO office releases emails that show close collaboration with publishers on WIPO treaty for the blind | Knowledge Ecology International Date: Sat, 11 May 2013 18:34:22 -0400 From: Jamie Love james.love@keionline.org To: a2k@lists.keionline.org, Ip-health ip-health@lists.keionline.org

http://keionline.org/node/1719

UK IPO office releases emails that show close collaboration with publishers on WIPO treaty for the blind

On May 10, 2013, a very revealing freedom of information request was made available from the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO). The request had been filed on April 14, 2013 by the journalist Glyn Moody, for:

======== Emails, letters and any other written communications from the last six months, between the Publishers Association or representatives of UK publishers, and the Intellectual Property Office, on the subject of the WIPO treaty for the blind (formally, the "Treaty to facilitate Access to Published Works by Visually Impaired Persons and Persons with Print Disabilities".) ========

On May 10, 2012 the IPO released 28 pages of partly redacted correspondence. (available here [2]) Unfortunately, the document itself is not accessible for persons who are visually impaired.The original request and the IPO justification for the redactions are available here: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/wipo_treaty_for_the_blind [3]

What do the emails show?

In one case, the publishers asked to recommend a person with "outside expertise" for the UK delegation to WIPO.

In another exchange, the publishers share a link to an article by Professor Ruth Okediji, a negotiator for Nigeria, explaining why they object to references to fair use in the treaty text.

The publishers pushed the UK delegation repeatedly to fight for a restriction for exceptions in cases where there is "commercial availability" of works, in one case highlighting the text in the new Canada law.

One of the IPO documents has the heading "Why WIPO Should Not Introduce Fair Use Into the Instrument for Print Disabilities." Another is subtitled, "How commercial availability can work for all."

Overall, the emails deal extensively with publisher opposition to fair use, and promotion of commercial availability and requests that the treaty include restrictive three-step test language (even while asserting that other treaties and agreements already mandate the three step test for all copyright exceptions). The emails also demonstrate the close cooperation and communication between the IPO and the publishers in the negotiations.

The exchanges would have been more revealing if the IPO had not redacted the names and titles of the individuals receiving and sending the emails.

Source URL: http://keionline.org/node/1719 [2] http://keionline.org/sites/default/files/RedactedPAemails.pdf [3] https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/wipo_treaty_for_the_blind

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