Nepal Library and Information Consortium (NeLIC, jointly organised a two-days seminar on copyright with EIFL on 3-4 September 2015. It was the regional seminar for Asia supported by UNESCO. The seminar focused on the development of open educational resources (OERs), and long-term preservation of knowledge through libraries. It emphasized a balanced copyright law that supports both educational activities as well as the protection of Intellectual Property Rights. The seminar also made an advocacy of the Marrakesh Treaty for the Visually Impaired Persons and Persons with Print Disabilities and formed a “Right to Read” campaign to urge Nepal Government for the ratification of the Treaty.  

More than 80 Participants from Kyrgyzstan, Maldives, Myanmar, and Nepal had the opportunity to engage in discussion with international copyright experts. Prof. Kenneth D. Crews, Teresa Hacket, GR Raghavender, Birendra Raj Pokharel, and Babu Ram Gautam were the keynote speakers of the seminar. Prof. Crews also gave a public lecture on “International Copyright and Domestic Exceptions: WIPO, Treaties, and the Politics of Libraries”, hosted by the Social Science Baha.