I have now written several articles about why the Marrakesh Treaty will not solve the book famine. I am beginning to feel like the kid in The Emperor’s New Clothes.

The Marrakesh Treaty has muddled incentives for publishers to make books accessible to people with disabilities.

The Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who…

The last paper in this series will address questions raised in the first two. Specifically, why has the accessibility of educational…

The first paper in this series (“The Marrakesh Treaty and Big A11y”) touched on how the Chafee Amendment of 1996 failed to solve the “book famine” for college students with print-related disabilities. In fact, publishers, not “authorized entities”, have…

In October, 2018, President Trump signed the Marrakesh Treaty Implementation Act, which implements the “Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired, or Otherwise Print Disabled”. The treaty provides a copyright…