November 2010

Driven by Ecuador, Brazil and Paraguay, WIPO member countries achieve consensus for future work on Limitations & Exceptions

During the Twenty-First Session Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), held from 8 to 12 November in the city of Geneva, the WIPO member countries reached consensus on a substantive future work without precedents in Limitations & Exceptions to copyright.

The negotiations took until midnight on the last day, and the alliance Latin America-Africa-Asia (first hit) was key to achieving the necessary consensus with developed countries. The work program will review the main areas where they are needed Limitations & Exceptions, starting with people with visual disabilities, an issue that was the basis of the draft treaty presented by Ecuador, Brazil and Paraguay (and now Mexico as an acceding country) during the session Eighteenth Committee, which gave new life to the issue of Limitations & Exceptions, culminating with the decision in recent days.

The National Director of Copyright and Related Rights IEPI, Flavio Arosemena Burbano lawyer has led the process to name the country from the technical side, and the Foreign Ministry along with the Ecuador Mission in Geneva has led all the diplomatic process. Remember also that the lawyer Arosemena was a panelist at the invitation of WIPO in the "Global Meeting on New Licensing Procedures in the Field of Copyright to facilitate access to culture in the Digital Age", held 4 and 5 November and in the city of Geneva.

in the graph consist of delegates from Brazil and Egypt, together with the Director National Copyright and Related Rights IEPI and the Director of the Chilean NGO Innovarte