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Hassink 2 September 2020 Reflections on IP: An interview with WIPO Director General Francis Gurry Francis Gurry reflects on his experience over the past : WIPO / E. Berrod 12 years at the helm of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and discusses some of the major Photo challenges that lie ahead for the international intellectual property (IP) community. What has been the high point of your career at WIPO? The fact that the Organization now has on board so many fine professionals who are collaborating across vertical reporting lines to develop and bring some of our best new ideas and projects to fruition. I don’t think there is anything now that does not require horizontal collaboration. It has been great to see that come together. What has been your greatest achievement as Director General? I think that is for others to judge. But for me, the Marrakesh Treaty and the Accessible Books Consortium (ABC) stand out (see box). They successfully address a specific need and have the good will of all member states and relevant stakeholders. My colleagues have done wonderful work Director General Francis Gurry has been in building up the ABC Global Book Service, a repertoire at the helm of WIPO for the last 12 years. of over 635,000 works in more than 80 languages, which is one of the key ways the ABC makes operational the legal framework established by member states in the Marrakesh Treaty. That has been a great exercise. What enabled that success? First, the Marrakesh Treaty and the ABC deal with a specific problem, which makes it easier to measure the impact and raise comfort levels around the proposed solution. WIPO MAGAZINE 3 Second, they address a truly international problem. Thanks to the Marrakesh Treaty, it is now possible to produce just one accessible version of a publication in a given About the Accessible language and to make it available through the ABC Global Books Consortium Book Service, thereby eliminating the need to produce multiple accessible versions of the same publication in WIPO and its partners created the Accessible the same language for different countries. It’s a perfect Books Consortium (ABC) in 2014 to help imple- example of an international solution that addresses an ment the objectives of the Marrakesh Treaty international need. at a practical level. Less than 10 percent of all published works are produced in accessible for- And third, the cause is indisputable. Nobody takes mats according to World Blind Union estimates. issue with enabling blind persons to have equal access To increase the overall number of accessible to publications, which are the basis of the transmission works that are globally available, the ABC works of knowledge. in three areas: All three conditions rarely come together in this way. Capacity building – over 12,800 educational titles in national languages have been produced Are there any other developments that stand out? in accessible formats through funding, training and technical assistance provided by the ABC Yes. There is a greater acceptance around the world, in 17 developing or least developed countries in albeit nuanced, that IP is an extremely serious issue the past five years. that requires high-level policy attention. While there are inevitable differences of opinion with respect to approach, Accessible publishing – the ABC promotes which is to be expected, we have reached the stage the production of “born accessible” works by where everyone agrees that IP is important. Today, for publishers, that is, books that are usable from example, many developing countries are embracing IP the start by both sighted persons and the print not because they have to, but because they want to see disabled. Publishers and publisher associations what they can get out of it and how they can use it to around the world are invited to sign the ABC realize their own development goals. That’s a great thing. Charter for Accessible Publishing, which contains eight high-level aspirational principles relating And what have been the greatest challenges? to digital publications in accessible formats. Hachette Livre, one of the world’s largest publish- The greatest policy challenge has been the fact that ers, was the 100th signatory of the ABC Charter. international cooperation is not currently the default policy response of decision makers to achieve solutions, ABC Global Book Service – is a global library even when the problems are global in nature. This is a catalogue of accessible formats that enables widespread phenomenon and there are many possible participating libraries for the blind from around explanations. Deep analysis will be required to understand the world to share items in their collections and why it is occurring. distribute accessible titles obtained through the ABC to their patrons. The ABC Global Book Globalization, for example, is an important factor that Service now has over 635,000 accessible works in has generated new policy challenges. Technology has more than 80 languages available for cross-border fueled global competition, which as a result of the rapid exchange to benefit people who are print-disabled. development of certain regions, has become multi-polar. Over 70 libraries for the blind from around the Inevitably, this is engendering a degree of reticence world have joined the Service. about international solutions that may affect competitive positions. At WIPO, we see this playing out, in particular, in our normative program, making it extremely difficult to achieve international agreement on new rules. The big challenge, therefore, is how to develop the reflex among decision makers to seek international solutions for what are clearly international problems. Linked to this is 4 September 2020 : WIPO / E. Berrod Photos Adoption of the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired or Otherwise Print Disabled, Marrakesh, Morocco, June 2013. About the Marrakesh Treaty The Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired or Otherwise Print Disabled addresses the global “book famine.” It requires contracting parties to adopt national law pro- visions that permit the production of books in accessible formats, such as Braille, e-text, audio or large print, by organizations, so-called authorized entities, that serve people who are blind, visually impaired or otherwise print disabled. It also allows for the exchange of such accessible texts across national boundaries, without the need to request permission from the copyright owner. The World Health Organization estimates that 253 million people are living with visual impair- ments around the world, with over 90 percent of them located in lower-income countries. The Treaty was adopted on June 27, 2013, at a diplomatic conference organized by WIPO and hosted by the Kingdom of Morocco in Marrakesh. The Treaty entered into force on September 30, 2016, three months after it gained the necessary 20 ratifications or accessions by WIPO member WIPO Director General Francis Gurry and recording states. The membership of the Treaty has grown legend Stevie Wonder celebrate the conclusion of the historic Marrakesh Treaty in June 2013. rapidly since its entry into force in 2016. At the time of writing, the Treaty has 70 contracting parties covering 97 countries.