CENL Copyright Working
Group Report 2014 - 2015
Benjamin White
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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Thank you
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