WIPO Conference to approve 2013 copyright exceptions for the blind
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An extraordinary general assembly of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) in Geneva on Tuesday decided to convene a diplomatic conference to adopt a system of copyright exceptions for the blind. After a four-year-long tug of war to see organizations such as the World Blind Union (WBU) their target moved a step closer. In June 2013, the International Law Treaty adopted in Marrakesh and be signed by the Member States of WIPO.
The WBU explained that remain in many countries copyright blocking the production of copies for blind or visually impaired. Including the transfer - for example to organizations for the blind in poor countries - is currently impossible. The proportion of the books currently in appropriate formats - in Braille, large print or audio - is produced lies in not more than 7 percent. Usually take care of it self-help organizations with limited resources.
Of the new agreement, the organizations for the blind hope finally Remedy. It would also be the first WIPO treaty for decades, which expands the copyright, but rather limited. The EU had penetrated during the negotiations on it earlier this week in Geneva to convene the conference agreement only if other points of contention on the Treaty provisions are pre-cleared. In February, wants to meet again to the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights.
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