The Marrakesh Treaty exists to solve one problem. Almost every book published is unavailable to people who cannot read print, and copyright law is part of the reason: converting a book into Braille, audio or large print normally requires the publisher's permission. The treaty removes that requirement for authorised bodies.
Cameroon deposited its ratification on 5 October 2021. The treaty entered into force here on 5 January 2022.
The national copyright law has never been amended to match.
That gap is not theoretical. It means converting a textbook into Braille in Cameroon still needs a permission the treaty was written to make unnecessary. A student who cannot read print waits on a negotiation that a ratified treaty already settled.
CAMAB Women raised implementation of the Marrakesh Treaty at Cairo in December 2022, and it is one of the reasons the CAMAB Centre at Nkolbisson exists. The centre is designed to produce school textbooks, legal texts on disability rights, the Bible, and documents on request. Production is the other half of the argument: a right to read that nobody can supply is still not a right to read.
Ratified, and not yet in national law. That is the sentence we keep repeating, because it is the accurate one.
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