[Nfbnet-members-list] US House of Representatives Passes Marrakesh Treaty Implementation Act

[Danielsen, Chris via Nfb-announce]

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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CONTACT:
Chris Danielsen
Director of Public Relations
National Federation of the Blind
(410) 659-9314, extension 2330
(410) 262-1281 (Cell)
cdanielsen at nfb.org<mailto:cdanielsen at nfb.org>

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