Meet the Stakeholders > Olav Stokkmo

CEO, International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations (IFRRO)

"There is no reason why people with reading impairment should have poor access to copyright works. This is not a question of the exact number of works accessible to them. A unison demand for better access indicates an issue to be addressed and a potential market for publishing. For too long IFRRO did not pay sufficient attention to this challenge. But now we understand it, instruments were developed to assist creators and publishers in improving access through the network of Trusted Intermediaries proposed by the WIPO Stakeholder Platform. This really is the right way forward to improving access to copyright works for people with reading impairment. "