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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.04,0:00:00.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Chris Friend of World Blind Union at WIPO negotiations on copyright exceptions for disabilities. July 21, 2012.)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.74,0:00:04.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Interviewer] Chris, I would ask you this question:\NIf you could speak directly to President Obama
Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.94,0:00:08.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about what you'd like him to do
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.01,0:00:11.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,between now and next Wednesday \Nin terms of this negotiation,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.94,0:00:15.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or what you'd like his government to do,\Nwhat would you tell him?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.04,0:00:23.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Chris Friend] President Obama, you have disability \Nvery much in your heart as an individual.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.51,0:00:27.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know you have a disability desk\Nwithin the White House.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.10,0:00:33.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have a very, very strong law, \Nwhich the rest of the world looks to: the ADA.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.97,0:00:39.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Please use the influence of your office with your government
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.24,0:00:45.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and make your government one of the\Nleading influences in this issue, here in Geneva.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.05,0:00:50.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because we really have waited\Nnearly 30 years for this
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.16,0:00:53.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if we wait another year,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.06,0:00:56.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if we miss the General Assembly\Nin the first week in October,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.72,0:01:01.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,another one million books\Nwill be produced around the world
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.05,0:01:02.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they will not be accessible to us.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.87,0:01:08.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the vision-impaired community and \Nthe other print-disabled community around the world
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.72,0:01:17.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ask you sir, to answer,\Nto get your government at this very meeting \Ntaking place in this coming week,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.29,0:01:23.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be forward and open and say\Nthat you support the issue,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.03,0:01:26.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you will back the Treaty\Nalong with all the other Member States,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.45,0:01:30.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that progress can be made\Nwithin your first presidency.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.70,0:01:32.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.