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Education exceptions at WIPO
Will the World Intellectual Property Organisation make it easy to share learning materials like textbooks across the world?
From 3 - 7th November 2008 the Seventeenth Session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights of the World Intellectual Property Organisation met in Geneva, Switzerland to discuss, among other things, exceptions to copyright.
Open licences and the Internet have made sharing learning materials around the world easy. But even open licensed learning materials often need to include some copyright materials such as examples, historical photographs, famous poems. Copyright law in democratic countries enables this kind of inclusion through exceptions. But exceptions differ from country to country. This is a problem that can be solved by international law that sets minimum educational exceptions for all countries.
The Shuttleworth Foundation released a working paper explaining the need for Treaty Provisions for Minimum Exceptions and Limitations for Education as part of Implementing the WIPO Development Agenda.
- Working Paper PDF download