WIPO meeting on copyright in education

IPKat also has a note about a WIPO meeting on copyright in education in the knowledge society.

"The digital environment presents enormous opportunities and challenges in terms of delivering educational materials in a sustainable manner, said Mrs. Rita Hayes, WIPO Deputy Director General in charge of copyright issues. "Today’s meeting was an excellent opportunity to look at the dissemination of teaching materials through balanced and effective copyright systems that meet the needs of all stakeholders; authors, publishers, libraries and educational services"

All stakeholders? Hmmm let's look at that list again - "authors, publishers, libraries and educational services." Nope I didn't miss them. Where were the readers or students?

But "delivering educational materials in a sustainable manner" is a nice idea, since sustainability, by definition, means protecting and cultivating and rich open-system (and I mean that in the purest thermodynamic sense, of course) source of open and renewable raw materials. Are WIPO promoting open access?