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Kindle 2 vs Reading Disabled Students

Update #2, 15 May: Yesterday, Random House began to disable TTS on books in the Kindle store, which is our primary concern. However, it appears that early reports from the Amazon message boards of...

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WIPO publishes agenda for Information Meeting on Developments in Broadcasting...

WIPO has published the program of the “Information Meeting on Developments in Broadcasting Provisional Program” (SCCR/18/INF/2 Prov.) which will take place on Monday, 25 May 2009.read more

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Open Access

July 21, 2009. KEI letter to Senators John Cornyn and Joseph Lieberman co-signed by IP Justice (IPJ), Essential Action, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Universities Allied for Essential Medicines...

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Terms of Protection for Copyright and Related Rights in multilateral treaties

To provide some context to discussions on the term of protection for copyright and related rights, the following note sumarizes on the basic provisions in various multilateral copyright and related...

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People vs. Authors Guild

When Amazon released the Kindle 2 electronic book reader on February 9, 2009, the company announced that the device would read e-books aloud using text-to-speech (TTS) technology.  Under pressure from...

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Internet Governance Forum

The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) was a product of the WSIS-Tunis Agenda and was given a fairly open-ended and ambiguous mandate.read more

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KEI comments to UK Consultation on limitations and exceptions for persons...

The proposal for a WIPO treaty for persons who are blind or have other disabilities moved forward at the last SCCR meeting in June 2011, when a wide collection of high income and Latin American...

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