Day May 13, 2019

Scoping Study on Access to Copyright Protected Works by Persons With Disabilities

[Blake E. Reid and Caroline B. Ncube] Abstract: Many copyrighted works exist in formats inaccessible to individuals with disabilities. This inaccessibility is problematic, as many countries have passed laws that support equal societal participation for individuals with disabilities. Access to copyrighted content for individuals with disabilities generally requires some type of assistive technology that transforms some or all of the content of the work from one medium to another. However, these transformations can implicate the exclusive rights granted to copyright and related rights holders.

A Shared Digital Europe

[Keynote address to the 2019 CC Summit] ... A Shared Digital Europe is our vision of a digital space that facilitates diversity, empowers communities and favours an overall people-centric and public-interest approach to technology development and innovation.