WIPO News on Treaty for Visually Impaired Persons

Sending a positive signal to all of us who strive for ensuring an effective access of knowledge to all, the Extraordinary General Assembly of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) referred the Treaty for Visually Impaired Persons to a diplomatic conference in June, 2013. The treaty would allow specialist organizations to make accessible copies of books in all signatory countries and legalises the transfer of accessible books across the national borders, thus making more books available to the visually impaired persons across the globe.  The General Assembly has also decided to convene a special session of the SCCR in February 2013 to advance work on the text of the draft treaty prior to the diplomatic conference, which will be held in June 2013.
See the WIPO link here

The draft text of the Treaty is available here