While the delegates considered holding a second, shorter meeting in October to discuss the broadcast treaty and limitations & exceptions, they ultimately decided to give preference to two full sessions in 2023, as they had in years prior to the pandemic. The applications of Wikimedia chapters in six countries were not approved. There were also discussions around observerships for non-governmental organisations, including a number of Wikimedia chapters and the Global Expert Network on Copyright User Rights. For libraries, these are highly relevant, and it will be important for governments and other stakeholders alike (not least libraries) to draw on WIPO’s potential on these themes. However, the Committee will return to these issues next time.
The Committee did not agree to further the proposal’s suggestions to further discuss text and data mining limitation & exceptions, copyright implications of the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science (2021), and contract override & safe harbour protections. This has been a point of contention for many years, with developed countries trying to limit the overall goal of this work to non-binding instruments. It was emphasized that the work plan concerns the development of best practices, not work toward a treaty or other binding legal instrument. “present (1) a scoping study on limitations and exceptions on research and (2) a toolkit on preservation.”.Develop tool kits to “help Member States craft laws and policies that support education, research and preservation of cultural heritage” in consultation with various stakeholders.Invite presentations by experts and members regarding cross-border problems with online materials in education.The Committee agreed the Secretariat would: IFLA representatives delivered a statement in support of the African Group’s proposal and greater copyright limitations and exceptions. Late in the week saw extended discussion of the proposal of WIPO’s African regional group for a work plan regarding limitations and exceptions for libraries, archives, educational institutions, research institutions, and persons with disabilities. The Committee agreed to continue discussions on the treaty at SCCR/43. IFLA delivered a statement in support of limitations and exceptions for broadcast rights, to ensure that institutions working in preservation have flexibility in how they store, back-up, and engage with broadcast content. Tuesday and Wednesday saw further discussion of broadcast rights and the broadcast treaty, which has been under discussion since the late 1990s. The panel responded generally to civil society’s inquires that they hoped the report would prompt further discussion and assessment of the pandemic’s impact. IFLA inquired whether the authors of the Committee’s Expert Report had evidence that offers of expanded access to digital content that some publishers made to libraries early in the pandemic were well-utilized, as IFLA’s report suggested the offers were for too short a period of time to be meaningfully integrated into teaching and research activities. In advance of SCCR/42, IFLA produced a report research report, “How well did copyright laws serve libraries during COVID-19?”. Each section featured an expert panel, on which globally-diverse representatives of institutions and industries discussed their overall experiences with the pandemic. The 42 nd meeting of the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (WIPO SCCR/42) was the group’s first in-person meeting since the pandemic began.Īppropriately, one of the first major items of discussion was the impact of COVID, with a special section devoted to the experiences of rightsholders during the pandemic and another to that of cultural and educational institutions. IFLA was proud to attend WIPO SCCR/42, May 9 – 13, an eventful week that saw discussions of the impact of COVID-19 on libraries and a commitment to further study cross-border challenges and develop toolkits on copyright limitations and exceptions before SCCR/43 in 2023.
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