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

Part2:Country studies

Sweden

Copyright

Swedish Copyright Law permits libraries and organisations officially authorized by the government, to produce published books as phonograms for lending to print impaired people. This can be done without the permission of authors or publishers. Anyone is entitled to produce Braille copies of published books.

Section 17 in the Swedish Copyright Legislation, as amended in 2005, provides an exception which says that “anyone is entitled to make such copies” (other than by means of sound recordings) of works which have been made public “that persons with a disability need in order to be able to enjoy the works” and that the copies “may also be distributed to those persons.” Sound recordings may be made by libraries and “organisations as decided by the Government in specific cases.” These copies must not be for commercial purposes and the author has a right to remuneration if the disabled person is able to keep a copy of the work.

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