Cite as: Pescod, Dan, "The 'Right to Read' – Why a WIPO Treaty for Print Disabled People?" KEStudies, Vol. 3 (2009).
The "Right to Read" – Why a WIPO Treaty for Print Disabled People?
Dan Pescod
April 2009
In November 2008 at the World Intellectual Property Organization Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights, the World Blind Union proposed a treaty for print disabled people. To understand that question, one must bear in mind three hugely important worldwide developments.
