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Greetings Open Education Colleagues: The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is considering whether they will take action to encourage countries to have stronger limitations and exceptions to copyright. In this debate, it's valuable to hear from the open education community. For OER in particular, clear standards about copyright exceptions for education will enhance access to learning resources and will simplify questions about including and sharing third party material in OER. Civil society groups have written a draft treaty <http://tiny.cc/TERA-GCV>, and are asking for groups to sign in support. Sign-ons in October will be valuable in preparation for the November WIPO meeting. The core of the draft treaty requires that all copyright laws contain rights to use materials for educational or research purposes compatible with fair practice, including: - making copies in the course of teaching, learning, and research - performing or communicating works in an educational context - making quotations - using images, short works and excerpts of longer works - translating materials - using materials for which the right holder cannot reasonably be identified or located, or for which there is no longer a commercial exploitation - making and providing accessible format copies of materials to people with disabilities - importing lawfully made copies of materials - to use works for computational or other research uses that do not themselves express or communicate the work to the public, including indexing and text and data-mining Creative Commons is planning to endorse this draft treaty. The treaty aims are aligned with our organisational vision, and with our strategy that includes advocacy and copyright reform to improve equitable access to education and research resources. We encourage your organisations to review the draft treaty and considering signing on too. Documents: - summary of the draft treaty <http://infojustice.org/archives/40295> - full text of the draft treaty <http://tiny.cc/TERA-GCV> - sign-on form <https://form.jotform.com/pijip/endorse-TERA> With gratitude, Cable Cable Green, PhD Director of Open Education Creative Commons - Join: CC Open Education Platform <https://creativecommons.org/2017/09/05/invitation-join-cc-open-education-platform/> - Tw: @cgreen <http://twitter.com/cgreen> - CC has thrown the doors open to a broader, more inclusive, more engaged Global Network. Get involved today. <https://network.creativecommons.org/get-involved/> *(this e-mail is a remix from posts by Meredith Jacob <https://creativecommonsusa.org/index.php/2018/10/04/this-proposed-treaty-on-copyright-exceptions-should-matter-to-the-open-education-community/>, Tim Vollmer and Sean Flynn)* ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the OPENEDSIG list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=OPENEDSIG&A=1