What's your country's position on a "books for blind people" treaty? Find out with our "WIPO treaty map", spring 2012

Now available on the EBU website, an interactive map of Europe  allowing you to see at a glance where your country stands on the key issue of a binding WIPO "books for blind people" treaty.

Back in February, EU Commissioner Barnier promised the European Parliament that he would ask EU Member States for a mandate to negotiate and agree such a treaty. EBU has asked EU governments for their position on a binding WIPO treaty.

The interactive map displays their responses as received to date. Now is the time to influence their decision, ahead of the fast-approaching Copyright Negotiating Committee "SCCR" which starts in Geneva this July 16th. 

Please follow the link above enabling you to contact the WIPO representative in your country to urge them to support the proposed treaty. The more pressure we can put on the decision makers, the more likely they are to agree to a treaty.

Please publicise and disseminate this map as widely as possible and encourage a maximum amount of people to respond. We count on your support to move this issue forward, and this map is a great way of calling your WIPO representatives to account!