Today, Stevie Wonder attended a World Intellectual Property Organization meeting in Geneva to ask delegates to support the World Blind Union's proposed treaty for copyright exemptions for visually impaired and other disabled people. "Please work it out. Or I'll have to write a song about what you didn't do." (Thanks, Madrat, via Submitterator!)
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Sep 20, 2010
Stevie Wonder to WIPO: get your copyrights out of my disabled rights
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