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Originally Posted by Shaggy
The US (and other countries) already have exceptions to copyright that essentially do this.
Since we're going back to the original story, what this story is about is the WIPO receiving a proposal for a treaty to add similar exceptions worldwide.
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I would object to the exceptions being called "similar". They go far beyond the current exceptions, to a point that I find objectionable.
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Originally Posted by Shaggy
The US (and other countries) were attempting to block WIPO from even discussing the proposed treaty.
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That's not surprising when any opposition to the specifics of the treaty is met with distortions and allegations of "screw the blind", as witnessed here. Do you really think it would play much differently in the media? Indeed, the whole tone of the original article was that the US et. al. were on the morally wrong side of this issue. Their side is a "rogue's gallery" who are "opposing the rights of blind people", presupposing all of the provisions the treaty is proposing are in fact existing moral rights of blind people.