Dear All
Once again we come to you to help influence for the positive, the Treaty
negotiations at Morocco next week. A group is trying to create short video
clips which can make a difference. Please see trailing email. Would request as
many VIs on the list or known to you to follow the instructions contained in
the email and send out these video clips to the address mentioned.
Your help is urgently required.
Dr. Sam Taraporevala
Director
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Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 14:36:57 -0500
To: nfbnet-master-l...@nfbnet.org
From: cdaniel...@nfb.org
Subject: [Nfbnet-master-list] We Need Your Videos
Dear Friends,
In less than two weeks, representatives of almost two hundred countries
will meet in Marrakesh, Morocco, to consider adopting a treaty that will
make it legally possible for printed copyrighted materialslike books,
magazines, textbooks, and job training coursesto be converted to formats
that the blind and print disabled can use AND, critically, for those
accessible materials to be easily shared across national boundaries for
the first time in history. Successfully negotiating this
treaty is, therefore, vital to every blind and print-disabled person,
their families, friends, and employers the world over. For
tens of millions around the world desperately trying to learn and earn
themselves out of crushing poverty, it may actually mean the difference
between a life of hope and opportunity or one of misery and despair.
Unfortunately, enormously powerful corporationsmostly in the United
States and the European Unionrecently have made clear their intention to
block adoption of the treaty, or to make it so complicated and burdensome
for the providers of accessible materials that the treaty’s goal of
ending the worldwide “book famine” for the blind will be thwarted.
You have the power to stop them.
Please, take just a few minutes today to sit down in front of a video
camera and tell us about yourself, your struggles to obtain books and
other materials and what the treaty would mean to you or someone you care
about. Just follow the few easy steps below and we will work to be
sure that your video is seen by scores of journalists, hundreds of
delegates to the treaty conference in Marrakesh, and by millions of
internet users around the globe.
Tell
the chairmen and CEOs of some of the world’s biggest companies to drop
their opposition to a treaty that doesn't legally affect them but means
everything to you. Please do it today! Here’s how . . .
***MARRAKESH TREATY APPEAL VIDEO STEP-BY-STEP***
Your video absolutely should be in your own words! Please follow
these easy step-by step suggestions and brief outline for your comments,
however, so that we can effectively merge your video story with others’
for the highest impact:
1. Find a quiet place to record so we can hear everything you
say. Outdoors is fine, but windy or noisy locations should be
avoided;
2. Stand or sit as far from the camera as it takes for just your
head and body above the waist to be seen on camera. Closer or
further won't be as helpful;
3. Start with this exact “lead-in,” please: “My name is
_______ and I live in ___(City) & ____(State). I strongly
support the Books Without Borders copyright treaty.”
4. Then, please tell us what kind of print disability you (or the
family member or friend you’re speaking about) have;
5. Briefly explain what kind of books or other materials you (or
they) would like to be able to get but can't, and what having those
materials would mean to you. Anything important to youeducation, job
training, hobbies is important to us!
6. Finally, to end your video, please record exactly as written
below all three of the brief personal appeals to the powerful
chief executives whose companies are leading sophisticated coalition
efforts to block the Marrakesh treaty. (No need to read the a), b)
c) headings of course!) We will work to have your voice echo around
the world:
a) General Electric [CEO name pronounced “Im” like image +
“melt”]
“Mr. Immelt, I need a strong Marrakesh copyright treaty to get books I
can read. Almost 300 million people around the world need it even
more. General Electricthe company you runis blocking books
for the blind in Marrakesh. As CEO, you can stop that. Please
stop it NOW!”
b) Adobe [CEO name pronounced “Na – rye – in”]
“Mr. Narayen, I need a strong Marrakesh copyright treaty to get books I
can read. Almost 300 million people around the world need it even
more. Adobethe company you runis blocking books for the blind in
Marrakesh. As CEO, you can stop that. Please stop it
NOW!”
c) Exxon Mobil
“Mr. Tillerson, I need a strong Marrakesh copyright treaty to get books I
can read. Almost 300 million people around the world need it even
more. Exxon Mobilthe company you runis blocking books for the
blind in Marrakesh. As CEO, you can stop that. Please stop it
NOW!”
Please send your video to Jessica Freeh, Public Relations Specialist,
National Federation of the Blind, at
jfr...@nfb.org. If you have any
questions, please contact Jessica or me. Thank you.
Chris Danielsen
cdaniel...@nfb.org
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