[Ohio-talk] US House of Representatives Passes Marrakesh Treaty Implementation Act Treaty Now Awaits Presidential Action

[Richard Payne]

For those of us who have been to the Washington seminar for what seems to be
forever this is better than great news.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

US House of Representatives Passes Marrakesh Treaty Implementation Act
Treaty Now Awaits Presidential Action

Washington, DC (September 25, 2018): The United States House of
Representatives has passed the Marrakesh Treaty Implementation Act (S.
2559), which makes modest changes to copyright law that will bring the
United States into compliance with the terms of the Marrakesh Treaty. The
Senate gave its advice and consent to ratification of the treaty and passed
the implementing legislation on June 28.

"For almost a decade now, the National Federation of the Blind, our
partners, and other advocates have worked to bring the Marrakesh Treaty into
being and into force," said Mark A. Riccobono, President of the National
Federation of the Blind. "Today we applaud the United States House of
Representatives for its passage of the Marrakesh Treaty Implementation Act.
We now urge President Trump to sign this implementing legislation, and to
order the State Department to deposit the instrument of ratification with
the World Intellectual Property Organization as soon as practicable. We are
closer than ever to the day when blind Americans will have greater access to
the world's knowledge, in many of its original languages, than we have ever
had in human history."

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Richard Payne,  President
National Federation of the Blind of Ohio
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The National Federation of the Blind knows that blindness is not the
characteristic that defines you or your future. Every day we raise the
expectations of blind people, because low expectations create obstacles
between blind people and our dreams. You can live the life you want;
blindness is not what holds you back


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