EU Parliament Calls On Commission To Work Towards WIPO Treaty For Accessibility

Andrew Baker is an LLB/BCL candidate at McGill University Faculty of Law. The EU Parliament has just released a report (see article 70) calling on the EU Commission to support a WIPO treaty proposal that would create binding legal norms for copyright exceptions for accessible formats of print material.

WIPO Reports on Draft Treaties on Audiovisual Performances and on Broadcasting Organizations

Pauline Wong is the Assistant Director of IP Osgoode. The Chairs of the WIPO copyright consultation meetings held in April recently issued reports on two copyright treaties that are currently being negotiated: the draft Treaty on the Protection of Audiovisual Performances and the draft Treaty on the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations.