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From a brief reading of the document, there is an interesting lack of a main point: Article 4.a does NOT specify that the work needs to be unavailable in an accessible format for a non-profit to be able to convert into an accessible format and send it to all interested visually impaired persons on the planet. I'm sure this is intended, but it's lacking from paragraph 4 as far as I can see (and no, it doesn't seem to be included in later paragraphs either). It's a fairly important point: without it, any given organisation that HAS LEGAL ACCESS TO THE WORK (and I honestly don't know what that means) can just convert it and host a torrent of it for visually impaired people to download.
Apart from that, Sirbruce is wrong in stating that for-profit companies will be allowed to rip him off - if they make money on it they are required by this document to remunerate the rights holder, unless things fall under normal copyright exemptions.
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Fake
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