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Conference Session 209

International agreements that influence national policy framework for exceptions and limitations for libraries

Copyright and other Legal Matters (CLM)

Congress track 2: Policy, strategy and advocacy.

22 August 2013 10:45 - 12:45 | Room: Session Room 324/325

• Opening comments
  VICTORIA OWEN (University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Canada)
• IFLA at World Intellectual Property Organization and the Proposed Treaty for Libraries and Archives
  WINSTON TABB (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA)
• Treaty for the blind and visually impaired and what it means for libraries and TLIB
  JONATHAN BAND (TBC) (Policy Bandwidth, Washington, USA)
• Treaty for Visually Impaired Persons (TVI) and treaty proposal on Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries and Archives (TLIB): implications for the Developing World
  DENISE ROSEMARY NICHOLSON (University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa)
• Recent court cases in intellectual property and their implications for libraries
  HARALD MUELLER (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, Germany)
• Bilateral and multilateral trade agreements; IFLA resources for libraries on IP
  ELLEN BROAD (National Library of Australia, Canberra, Australia)