Copyright Limitations & Exceptions
15 Mar, 2008: WIPO Copyright Committee Considers Many Proposals for 2008 Work Program
WIPO Copyright Committee: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
'Broadcast Treaty Chair' Remains, Limitations and Exceptions to Copyright Considered
(15 March 2008) The WIPO Copyright Committee (SCCR) met from 10-12 March 2008 in Geneva to debate the future work program for the committee after the Member States ...
13 Mar, 2008: Text Adopted by WIPO Copyright Committee on Exceptions and Limitations
Brazil, Chile, Nicaragua and Uruguay presented a proposal which elaborated further the proposal by the delegation of Chile (SCCR/13/5). Many of the delegations who took the floor supported the proposal, in whole or in part. Other delegations expressed support or opposition to specific elements of document SCCR/13/5, which are reflected in their
interventions in the report of the meeting....
12 Mar, 2008: WIPO Copyright Committee Done For Year; Exceptions And Limitations ‘Here To Stay’ 
"The World Intellectual Property Organization copyright committee on Wednesday concluded work until next November in a way similar to recent years, with the same chair, European dominance, no agreement, and division over a proposed treaty on broadcasters’ rights. But it also contained the elevation of a proposal to improve exceptions and limitations to copyright, and a proposal for four ...
11 Mar, 2008: WIPO Copyright Committee Begins New Era With Revised Agenda, Same Chair (IP-Watch)
The World Intellectual Property Organization copyright committee on Monday began a new era in the wake of a failed decade of negotiations for a broadcasters’ rights treaty. But it will tackle its new agenda including limitations and exceptions to copyright with the same chairman who guided the broadcasting talks with fervour. Finland’s Jukka Liedes was re-elected chairman of the ...
11 Mar, 2008: New Proposal At WIPO For Exceptions and Limitations Agreement; US Unconvinced (IP-Watch)
"Several nations have joined Chile in presenting a new proposal for work on limitations and exceptions to this week’s meeting of the World Intellectual Property Organization copyright committee. The work would include establishing an international agreement on the issue. But the United States told the plenary on Tuesday that it is “not ready” for norm-setting activities on exceptions and ...
10 Mar, 2008: WIPO Member States Request Agenda for Copyright Exceptions and Limitations
A group of developing countries submitted a proposal for a work program for WIPO's Standing Committee on Copyrights and Related Rights (SCCR) on 10 March 2008. The new proposal from Brazil, Chile, Nicaragua and Uruguay, calls for work on three areas: identification from members’ national IP systems of models and practices on exceptions and limitations; analysis of exceptions and ...
6 Mar, 2008: “Conceiving an International Instrument on Limitations and Exceptions to Copyright” (Hugenholtz, Okediji / March 2008) 
"The task of developing a global approach to limitations and exceptions (“L&E’s”) is
one of the major challenges facing the international copyright system today. As mechanisms of access, L&E’s contribute to the dissemination of knowledge, which in turn is essential for a variety of human activities and values, including liberty, the exercise of political power, and economic, social and personal advancement. ...
2 Mar, 2008: Education, IPRs and Fundamental Freedoms: The Right To Knowledge, 2005 (Suthersanen)
4 Feb, 2008: WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) 16th Session - 10-12 March 2008
Info on the WIPO Copyright Committee's meeting
30 Aug, 2007: The Threat of Technological Protection Measures to a Development-Oriented Information Society (South Centre Policy Brief 9)
"This policy brief explains the current international legal framework for their protection and national experiences in their implementation. It highlights that developing countries should use the flexibilities available to narrowly implement anti-circumvention obligations in such a way that can reduce the threat they pose on access to knowledge. ..."
16 Jul, 2007: Chile spearheads change at WIPO patent committee (KEI)
"In the wake of the recently concluded broadcasting negotiations at WIPO in June 2007 (Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights) where a proposed instrument for the protection of broadcasting organizations was put on cold storage but not terminated, a Chilean proposal on the examination of limitations and exceptions in the copyright area has come to the fore. Chile ...
20 Jun, 2007: WIPO Side-Event Highlights Exceptions, Limitations In Broadcasting Treaty (IP Watch)
"n Concerns that a new treaty on broadcasting being discussed at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) this week will be unbalanced, providing extra protection rights for broadcasters and further limits to users, was the topic of an event alongside the negotiation. The impact on developing countries was of particular concern. ..."
27 Nov, 2006: EU Report: Recasting of Copyright and Related Rights for the Knowledge Economy (Ivir)
"...On balance, the process of harmonisation in the field of copyright and related rights has produced mixed results at great expense, and its beneficial effects on the Internal Market are limited at best, and remain largely unproven. Fifteen years of ongoing harmonisation of copyright law have not produced a solid, balanced and transparent legal framework in which the knowledge economy ...
15 Mar, 2006: The International Copyright System: Limitations, exceptions and public (UNCTAD)
By Ruth L. Okediji. The international copyright system recognizes the importance of limitations and exceptions to secure the promise of knowledge goods to improve the welfare of society as a whole by encouraging creativity and promoting dissemination. Historically, the international system has not emphasized the central importance of limitations and exceptions to the fulfillment of copyright’s goals. This has ...