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"Mr President, this oral question highlights once again the vice-like grip copyright holders have on books and information, even in such an innocuous instance as this.
Blind and print-disabled persons have the same right of access to books as everyone else. However, their rights and their reality are completely at odds with one another, as these people continue to live through what is being termed a ‘book famine’.
The European Blind Union, the European Dyslexia Association, the Dyslexia Association of Ireland, the Committee on Petitions of the European Parliament, and even Parliament itself, have all called on the Commission and the Council to create binding legislation through the World Intellectual Property Organisation, yet the Commission and Council continue to walk the path of soft legislation, despite expert advice and guidance from blind persons’ organisations arguing to the contrary.
Put simply, this legislation would allow organisations to make an adapted copy of books and therefore make more books available to blind and print-disabled persons. That would be an intrinsic good. The need for this legislation is abundantly clear to me, as it should be to everyone in this House."@en1
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