Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-02-15-Speech-3-570-000"

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dcterms:Date	"2012-02-15"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20120215.26.3-570-000"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Vilija Blinkevičiūtė2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; FEMM (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3,3 member; S&D (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3,3 vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2009-09-29--2014-06-30)3,3 member; EMPL (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3,3 member; Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly (2009-10-07--2014-06-30)3,3 substitute; LIBE (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3,3 unknown; Lietuvos socialdemokratų partija (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3,3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3,3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Europe is home to millions of people for whom books have to be provided in an accessible format – audio, Braille or large print books. However, publishers are rarely interested in such book formats. Therefore, only around 5% of global works are published in a format that is accessible for the visually impaired. There is, at present, no legal standard that would provide for exception to copyright for cross-border distribution of formats adapted for the blind. Commissioner, do you agree that remedying this state of affairs would entail changing international copyright law in order to let people legally share collections of books across the European Union and beyond? I would like to call on the Commission and the Council to adopt a binding ‘books without borders’ treaty, which would enable the blind and partially sighted to share published materials worldwide. The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) is considering the possibility of drawing up an international treaty to improve access to books for the blind and other visually impaired people, and Commissioner, I therefore ask you to support this treaty, as does the blind and partially sighted community in my country, Lithuania."@en1
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