The Following is from the website pagehttp://121authent.org/BrailleSaltMarch.aspx--Also referenced athttp://www.umovement.org/p/372001-braille-salt-march

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is considering variousTreaty proposals that would allow export of Braille renditions of Copyrightedmaterials made legally in one country to other countries ... Various NGOs,

Publisher interests, and governmental IP offices are either 'for' or 'against' suchmeasures.We maintain that

EXISTING

laws in both UK and USA allow for such exportationof Copyrighted material even though there has never been any definitive legalinterpretation ... So, the 'SaltMarch',

as with Gandhi's March-to-the-Sea in1930 to challenge the Salt Laws,

will challenge such copyright measures: Wewill assume our interpretation as below is correct

and it will be up-to-them to prove otherwise.

In addition to using the UK (VIP)AAct 2002-- as described in the letter below--we may also work on a challenge to the export of Copyrighted materials madeunder US Copyright Act Section 121 'Chafee Amendment'.According to Jamie Love of Knowledge Ecology Int'l.:"It is arguably already the case that imports and exports are allowedunder the U.S. law, although the legal uncertainly has apparently deterredpeople from importing or exporting works created under exceptions,"(USCO Comments; NOV 2009).Also Bookshare.org (June 2010, Beneblog.com) has stated that export (andimport), under US Copyright Law has never been authoritatively interpreted andany such effort cannot be on a

".. try it and see if you get sued" basis.

The US Copyright Officehas

in fact

gone on record that an 'Authorized Entity' isexempt from export restrictions mentioned in the Copyright Act at Section 602...However, for now, as long as the work is published in UK and covered by UKCopyright provisions, the UK 31A provisions of the 1988 Copyright Act should besufficient if the recipient meets the requirements of that Section 31A.LETTER SENT TO PUBLISHER INTERESTS:Tue, 2 Mar 2010Dear IPA InternationalPublishers.org (and to other Publisher interests)--My name is John Edwin Miller. I am a US Library of Congress Certified BrailleTranscriber.Under Section 31A of the

UK Copyright (Visually Impaired Persons ) Act2002

, a Braille copy can be made of a literary or dramatic work which is qualifiedfor UK Copyright Law protection so long as the as the qualified visually-impairedrecipient has "lawful possession" or "lawful use" of a hard copy version of thebook. According to the RNIB:

If you are visually impaired, you can make, or ask

anyone

to make for you,a single accessible copy of anything of which you have "lawfulpossession" or "lawful use".This can cover anything that you have bought, been given or lent, or thatis held in a library that you are eligible to use.http://www.rnib.org.uk/getinvolved/campaign/accesstoinformation/copyrightcampaign/Pages/Copyright_Act_2002.aspx#H2Heading8While there have been published statements-- among them by Pinsent Masons,LLP (UK) and the RNIB itself-- that the

does not allowfor export of a (Braille) copy of a book to a qualified visually-impaired personoutside of the UK, that language is nowhere mentioned in the

2002 Act

itself andonly comes into play via the

mandatory license which applies solely to copies made by

organizations

under provisions of 31B.

CLA VIP LICENSE (2003)

2.1.2 distribute Licensed Copies to Authorised Persons

withinthe UnitedKingdom;

The mandatory Licensing scheme for a 31B organization is contained in 31D:31D(1)

Section 31B

does not apply to the making of an accessible copy in aparticular form if— (a) a licensing scheme operated by a licensing body is inforce...Pinsent Masons at <http://www.out-law.com/page-10059>:(Also), the UK law, like equivalent laws in other countries, does not allowthe supply of a digital book to a customer overseas.Dan Pescod, European and International Campaigns Manager,

RNIB

(viaDAISY Planet, June 2009), states that RNIB as a 31B

organization

under theCLA licensing scheme:"If we make an accessible version of a book in the UK and want to sendthat to another English-speaking country where they don't have theresources to make books accessible, we should be able to do that,"Pescod said.