EU PUBLISHERS’ FEDERATION WELCOMES EU SIGNATURE OF PRINT DISABLED BOOKS TREATY
May 10th, 2014
THE FEDERATION of European Publishers (FEP) has welcomed the European Union’s (EU) signing of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Marrakesh Treaty on helping blind and visually impaired consumers to access books, saying it will promote publishing for this market segment. Anne Bergman-Tahon, the FEP’s director, told The Bookseller, that by accepting copyright exemptions for material designed for the blind, visually impaired and dyslexic, the move “will have its greatest effect on publishers' willingness to work with technology companies” to ...
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