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- To: "Ann Parsons" <akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:12:06 +1100
Dear Victor Reader Stream Friends: As a friend of DAISY, HumanWare believes the following request from the DAISY Consortium may be of interest to Stream users. Some of you may wish to support this important advocacy initiative to improve access to information for blind and low vision people ultimately making more content available to enjoy on your Stream. Message from the DAISY Consortium... Dear DAISY Members and Friends, The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) will be considering a copyright treaty proposed by the World Blind Union (WBU) at the WIPO November 3 Standing Committee Meeting. The treaty, called "WIPO Treaty for Improved Access for Blind, Visually Impaired and other Reading Disabled Persons" is available online at: http://www.keionline.org/misc-docs/tvi/tvi_en.html. We are asking all of you to contact your country's representative who will be attending the WIPO Standing Committee meeting and advocate in favor of this draft treaty. We need you to act now, because the meeting will take place in ten days. Information and links to supporting documents are provided immediately below in this email. We also offer some guidance on who to contact in your country and some assistance finding the right person. 1. On the front page of the DAISY Website under "Recent News" is the link to an article that provides further detail. It also contains links to the draft treaty in HTML, DAISY 2.02, and in DAISY 3. DAISY home page: http://www.daisy.org Direct link to the news entry: http://www.daisy.org/news/news_detail.shtml?NewsId=458 2. The WIPO Standing Committee will be meeting November 3-7, 2008 and the WBU proposed treaty is the first substantive item on the agenda. The agenda can be found at: http://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/doc_details.jsp?doc_id=108373 3. DAISY Members and Friends should send their email letter in support of the proposed treaty to the department/minister that is going to represent their government in the SCCR/WIPO meeting. This information can normally be found within the department of foreign affairs and education in your country. If anybody has difficulties finding their SCCR representative we have provided names of those who attended the last meeting. This can be found at: http://www.keionline.org/misc-docs/tvi/wipo_delegates_sccr16.html#toc17 If you are unable to find the name of the representative in your country at the link provided above, please contact Judit Rius Sanjuan [judit.rius@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] and/or Thiru Balasubramaniam [thiru@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]. 4. The treaty proposal put forward by the WBU is an extremely important document which addresses information access on an international level. We suggest you familiarize yourself with the proposal, and ask that each of you contact the government representative in your country who will attend the SCCR/WIPO meeting. Background and talking points are available at: http://www.keionline.org/misc-docs/tvi/tvi_memo_en.html Best George Kerscher, Secretary General, DAISY Consortium George Kerscher Ph.D. Access to information is a fundamental human right in our Information Age. Senior Officer, Accessible Information Recording For the Blind & Dyslexic (RFB&D) http://www.rfbd.org Secretary General, DAISY Consortium http://www.daisy.org Co-chair Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), a division of the W3C http://www.w3c.org/wai Board Representative to the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) http://www.idpf.org This email was sent to akp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx You can instantly unsubscribe from these emails by clicking the link below: http://hcamarketing.cmail2.com/u/556004/wddl1drj/
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