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"Mr President, the World Blind Union and the European Blind Union have made it very clear that for the treaty to work in practice for blind and print-disabled people, it needs to permit the sending of accessible books across international borders directly to individuals, as well as to organisations serving blind people.
There are indeed already organisations which send accessible-format books directly to disabled people in other countries in a limited way – limited, that is, by outdated copyright law that this treaty, if concluded next month, would modernise. For instance, the US not-for-profit organisation Bookshare securely serves blind people in the UK who register with proof of their disability and who enter a pass code before downloading an accessible digital book they wish to read. However, Bookshare USA needs the treaty to allow delivery to individual print-disabled people before it can open the more than 100 000 titles it holds to UK subscribers.
To date, the Council and Commission negotiators have consistently opposed the clause in Article D(2)(b) which would allow the sending of accessible books to individuals. Will the Council and Commission now finally agree with the European and World Blind Union that the treaty must allow international distribution of accessible books to individuals and support Article D(2)(b) without caveats in the Marrakesh negotiations?"@en1
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