CENL Copyright Working Group Report 2014 - 2015

Benjamin White

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The Supranational Context

World Intellectual Property

Organisation

EU Directives

MS

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WIPO

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Library Treaty Under Discussion

• Minimum limitations and exceptions globally and cross border – lending, preservation, research copying, protecting L&Es from contract override, TPM circumvention etc.

• Africa Group, India, Brasil strongly support

• European Union not supportive

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UN Rapporteur in the Field of Cultural Rights – Farida Shaheed

Human Rights Council of the United Nations.

Copyright Policy and the Rights to Science and Culture 2014

Recommendation to create a core list of minimum required exceptions and limitations.

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UN Rapporteur in the Field of Cultural Rights – Farida Shaheed

European Parliament Legal Affairs Committee May 6

• The interests of authors and corporations are often different.

• Many non-copyright ways to support authors. e.g. library purchasing, budgetary support of arts, collective bargaining, visas etc

• Exceptions and limitations support human rights of authors as can provide statutory licences enhancing earnings

• Creators are not just professional artists

• Exceptions support human rights – freedom of expression and right to participate in a cultural life and science.

• A problem that protections mandatory but exceptions optional.

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