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(Chris Friend of World Blind Union at WIPO negotiations on copyright exceptions for disabilities. July 21, 2012.)

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[Interviewer] Chris, I would ask you this question:[br]If you could speak directly to President Obama

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about what you'd like him to do

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between now and next Wednesday [br]in terms of this negotiation,

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or what you'd like his government to do,[br]what would you tell him?

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[Chris Friend] President Obama, you have disability [br]very much in your heart as an individual.

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I know you have a disability desk[br]within the White House.

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You have a very, very strong law, [br]which the rest of the world looks to: the ADA.

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Please use the influence of your office with your government

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and make your government one of the[br]leading influences in this issue, here in Geneva.

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Because we really have waited[br]nearly 30 years for this

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and if we wait another year,

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if we miss the General Assembly[br]in the first week in October,

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another one million books[br]will be produced around the world

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and they will not be accessible to us.

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So the vision-impaired community and [br]the other print-disabled community around the world

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ask you sir, to answer,[br]to get your government at this very meeting [br]taking place in this coming week,

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to be forward and open and say[br]that you support the issue,

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you will back the Treaty[br]along with all the other Member States,

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so that progress can be made[br]within your first presidency.

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Thank you.