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The focus of WIPO SCCR 19, chaired by Jukka Liedes of Finland, was the issue of copyright exceptions and limitations. The WIPO Secretariat first presented and discussed an analytical document on copyright exceptions and limitations and a revised version of a questionnaire concerning this matter. Even more importantly, five new regional studies on exceptions and limitations for education were introduced. Unlike the other regional studies, however, the African study is unfortunately confined to the issue of teaching and does not look at equally important -- and certainly related -- library and archive exceptions and limitations. It also appears that the study’s results are not always based on the latest laws (eg, in Senegal and Ghana), and at least in South Africa’s case, the Appendix’s summary does not entirely capture the legal status quo. We therefore urge WIPO and/or the authors of the study to make use of ACA2K’s extensive research network to address some of these elements.
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