Joseph Farrell, June 20 2013 at Marrakesh Diplomatic Conference on Treaty for Blind
Channel: KEIWashDC
Date: 2013-07-09

Joseph Farrell is legally blind.  He was interviewed on June 20, 2013 at the WIPO diplomatic conference on a treaty for copyright exceptions for persons with disabilities, in Marrakesh, Morocco, where he was a member of the Civil Society Coalition.   At that point in the negotiations, it was unclear if the diplomatic conference would even produce a treaty, given the slow pace of the talks, and the divergence among countries on several key issues.  Farrell discusses several issues, including the WIPO gag order on the off the record informals.  Discussions were even then moving to secret informals, which were less transparent.