Marrakesh

July 12th, 2023 marked the 10-year anniversary of the landmark Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons who are Blind, Visually Impaired,...
For the last four years, as Vice-President and then President of the International Publishers Association, I promoted accessible publishing around the world, talking with key...
Yesterday was the first day of the 38th session of the WIPO SCCR. If you need to re-familiarise yourself with what has happened previously and...

From 24 September to 2 October WIPO held its General Assemblies where all Member States gathered to discuss the full range of WIPO’s work including...

Today was the first day of the 32nd edition of the International Publishers Congress, and this year it is hosted in New Delhi, India....
This week I was in San José, Costa Rica, for a WIPO workshop on the Marrakesh Treaty and the Accessible Books Consortium (ABC), on 13-15...
Occasionally, copyright and the rights of disabled people are framed as somehow incompatible—as though the former may preclude the latter—but to my mind these rights...