MARRAKESH TREATY: GETTING THE DETAILS RIGHT
[Electronic Information for Libraries] By the end of 2021, over 100 countries had joined the Marrakesh Treaty for persons with print disabilities, confirming its place as WIPO’s most successful treaty of recent times. In most countries, the next step in the legal process is for the treaty’s provisions to be implemented into national law (known as domestication), typically by introducing new exceptions in the copyright law, or by amending existing exceptions to ensure that they are Marrakesh-compliant. While national implementation can take time, it is a vital part of the legal process. Once completed, beneficiaries such as blind people can start to make practical use of the treaty, and libraries can step up their services to deliver materials into the hands of print-disabled readers.
