Posted on 09/20/2010 12:33:05 PM PDT by epithermal
GENEVA (AP) — Stevie Wonder pressed global copyright overseers on Monday to help blind and visually impaired people access millions of science, history and other audiobooks, which they cannot read in electronic form.
The blind singer told the U.N.'s 184-nation World Intellectual Property Organization that more than 300 million people who "live in the dark" want to "read their way into light," and the current copyright system denies them an equal opportunity.
The current legal framework means that institutes for the blind in different countries may be required to make multiple audiobook versions of the same work, said Richard Owens, WIPO's director of copyright and electronic commerce.
Owens said this leads to higher costs that are passed on to the listeners. It also limits access to blind and partially blind people in poor countries, which cannot afford to make their own versions of everything from science textbooks to best-sellers, he said.
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Hmmm... he sounds very superstitious...
It occurs to me that Mr. Wonder has oodles of money laying around. Perhaps he could get out HIS OWN GOD D***** CHECKBOOK.
Big Media thinks that fair use is spelled FARE USE, PAY FOR PLAY.
Tough talk from a guy that doesn’t make records for the deaf.
SING PING
As much as I like Stevie Wonder’s music, I think he would be better off taking a page from Helen Keller.
Blind people can have their own dignity but it must come from within themselves and not be dependent on the government or any other outside influence.
Dignity comes from the inner soul of a person.
Dignity can neither be bought or sold.
Well, that’s fine.
Just let the folks who use the service pay the surcharge.
Entire world in full blown economic breakdown and he still wants MORE MONEY! Selfish stupid pig.
good point!
Of course, no one thinks of the scientists who work day in and day out trying to find a cure or better treatment for the blind. It’s not the UN or Stevie Wonder doing all the work 24/7 inside a lab.
Amen
I am thinking of them.
You want to benefit from someones papers and research?
Pay for it.
Want it translated? Pay for it.
Want it spoon fed? Pat for it.
To bad Helen was a Radical Socialist.
I once saw Stevie Wonder at the Atlanta airport. He didn’t see me.
Upstate optometrist Tom Little, 62, reportedly shouted his final words as Taliban fighters, faces covered by scarves and bodies wrapped in blankets, rushed at him and nine other charity workers...The account also revealed that British aid worker Karen Woo was lashed across the face by a gunman wielding a Kalashnikov. She fell face-first onto the stony track, and the gunman shot her twice in the back...
...When the slaughter was over, one of the Taliban killers spoke Urdu into his radio...
"Mission accomplished," he coldly declared...
Tons of Christian charities giving aid to the blind around the world.
I personally know a man whose father (a Christian missionary) helped build a hospital for the blind in Herat, Afghanistan when the Soviets occupied the place.
I know you do. I mean the stupid entertainers.
Give to your local LIONS Club.
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