"A broad swath of American enterprise ranging from major software makers to motion picture and music companies are joining forces to oppose a new international treaty that would make books more accessible to the blind. With the exception of Google, almost every major industry player has expressed disapproval of the treaty, which would allow cross-border sharing of digitized books accessible to the blind and visually impaired. Google's chief copyright counsel believes the industry-wide opposition is mainly due to 'opposition to a larger agenda of limitations and exceptions... We believe this is an unproductive approach to solving what is a discrete, long-standing problem that affects a group that needs and deserves the protections of the international community.'"
The right to profit. Note that this isn't about the blind getting stuff for free, this is about books in Braile and Ebooks with text to speech enabled being available for purchase online by anyone, anywhere. Talk about scumbags.
From:
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/12/12/1915231/Copyright-Industries-Oppose-Treaty-For-the-Blind