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Big Step Forward On Treaty For The Visually Impaired At WIPO

By Intellectual Property Watch

Over ninety-five percent of printed works are in formats inaccessible to people with visual impairments, representatives of the visually impaired said last week at the World Intellectual Property Organization. An agreement to allow exceptions in copyright law, they argued, could address this "book famine" by removing copyright restrictions on translation of works into accessible formats and on sharing of these translations across national boundaries.

Full post as published by Intellectual Property Watch on December 22, 2009 (boomark / email).