[Open-education] Draft WIPO Treaty: Copyright Exceptions and Limitations for Educational and Research Activities

[Cable Green]

Greetings Open Education Colleagues:

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is considering whether
they will take action to encourage countries to have stronger limitations
and exceptions to copyright.  In this debate, it's valuable to hear from
the open education community.  For OER in particular, clear standards about
copyright exceptions for education will enhance access to learning
resources and will simplify questions about including and sharing third
party material in OER.

Civil society groups have written a draft treaty <http://tiny.cc/TERA-GCV>,
and are asking for groups to sign in support.  Sign-ons in October will be
valuable in preparation for the November WIPO meeting.

The core of the draft treaty requires that all copyright laws contain
rights to use materials for educational or research purposes compatible
with fair practice, including:


   - making copies in the course of teaching, learning, and research
   - performing or communicating works in an educational context
   - making quotations
   - using images, short works and excerpts of longer works
   - translating materials
   - using materials for which the right holder cannot reasonably be
   identified or located, or for which there is no longer a commercial
   exploitation
   - making and providing accessible format copies of materials to people
   with disabilities
   - importing lawfully made copies of materials
   - to use works for computational or other research uses that do not
   themselves express or communicate the work to the public, including
   indexing and text and data-mining

Creative Commons is planning to endorse this draft treaty. The treaty aims
are aligned with our organisational vision, and with our strategy that
includes advocacy and copyright reform to improve equitable access to
education and research resources.

We encourage your organisations to review the draft treaty and considering
signing on too.

Documents:

   - summary of the draft treaty <http://infojustice.org/archives/40295>
   - full text of the draft treaty  <http://tiny.cc/TERA-GCV>
   - sign-on form <https://form.jotform.com/pijip/endorse-TERA>

With gratitude,

Cable

Cable Green, PhD
Director of Open Education
Creative Commons

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*(this e-mail is a remix from posts by Meredith Jacob
<https://creativecommonsusa.org/index.php/2018/10/04/this-proposed-treaty-on-copyright-exceptions-should-matter-to-the-open-education-community/>,
Tim
Vollmer and Sean Flynn)*
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