SV: SV: SV: SV: [governance] Re: Why standards from ISO are not

[Tapani Tarvainen]

On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 11:25:24AM +0200, Kicki Nordström (kicki.nordstrom at srfriks.org) wrote:

> I do not know of any exceptions in international laws concerning
> persons with disabilities! I doubt that ISO have made any exceptions
> and ISO standards are not laws either. National laws may have
> exceptions but not any international exceptions.

I guess it depends on how you define "international", but at least
European Union laws have such exceptions, notably in EU Copyright
Directive.

> The only mentioning of concerns is the new UN Convention on the
> rights of persons with disabilities (CRPD). In article 30 is
> intellectual properties mentioned which should not constitute
> limitation for PWD. But CRPD apply only to countries that have
> ratified the convention.

There's probably nothing that applies to all countries, I'm afraid. :-(

-- 
Tapani Tarvainen
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