USA, Canada, and the EU try to kill treaty that protects access to reading material for the blind.

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USA, Canada and the EU attempt to kill treaty to protect blind people's access to written material. (Via Boingboing). Additional links: Huffington Post. Read the actual proposal.

"The main aim of the treaty is to allow the cross-border import and export of digital copies of books and other copyrighted works in formats that are accessible to persons who are blind, visually impaired, dyslexic or have other reading disabilities, usi