Comments on: Prospects Brighten For Copyright Exception Treaty http://www.headstar.com/eablive/?p=615 Access to technology for all Sun, 01 Apr 2018 16:32:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: john e miller http://www.headstar.com/eablive/?p=615&cpage=1#comment-6148 Thu, 21 Jul 2011 21:25:35 +0000 http://www.headstar.com/eablive/?p=615#comment-6148 The single-draft-document at Article C calls on each individual WIPO Member state that they:

… should/shall provide in their national copyright law for an exception or limitation to the right of reproduction, the right of distribution and the right of making available to the public, as defined in article 8 of the WCT, for beneficiary persons as defined herein.

Therein lies the rub: Article 8 of the WIPO Copyright Treaty may not be so forgiving as might be suggested in the Bulletin above. Also each Member country’s Copyright law revisions as required might be subject to challenge from within that an exception to Copyright so structured does not represent a 3-Step Test ‘Certain Special Case(s)’ as referenced in the document Preamble.

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