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Funding and governance of library and information services for visually impaired people: international case studies

Part2:Country studies

South Korea

Copyright

Article 30 of the Copyright Act of 1995 provides an exception for visually impaired people, but as can be seen it is restrictive in terms of the scope of the people covered and also location.

30. - (1) It shall be permissible to reproduce in Braille for the blind a work already made public.

(2) It shall be permissible to make sound recordings of a work already made public, exclusively for the purpose of providing such recordings for the use of the blind at the facilities established for the promotion of the welfare of the blind as prescribed by the Presidential Decree.