World Blind Union: Allowing for copyright exceptions to make books accessible for the blind
Channel: Zero Project
Date: 2021-04-30

Welcome to the awardee video of World Blind Union and World Intellectual Property Organization´s Marrakesh Treaty, a winner of the 2018 Zero Project Award on Accessibility.

Working with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the World Blind Union (WBU) led a campaign to address what it calls a “book famine” – that is, the lack of accessible printed materials globally. Joining with like-minded stakeholders, the WBU drafted a treaty that would eventually be submitted to WIPO and become the Marrakesh Treaty in June 2013. The treaty allows for copyright exceptions to facilitate the creation of accessible versions of books and other copyrighted works for persons with visual impairments and print disabilities. As of late 2017, 33 countries have ratified the treaty and now allow copyright exceptions and some members are already transferring accessible books across borders, particularly Canada and Australia.

Speaker:
Fred Schröder, World Blind Union, Norway

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