Latvia has implemented the Use for the benefit of people with a disability (Art. 5.3(b) InfoSoc) exception in Section 22 and of the Copyright Act. The national exception is slightly more restrictive than the EU exception.

Implementation summary:

This exception allows organisations for the visually impaired and hearing impaired persons, as well as libraries which provide services to visually impaired and hearing impaired, to reproduce and distribute works, without remuneration, for non-commercial purposes, in a form perceivable by such impaired insofar as is necessary in the case of the relevant impairment.

Implementation details:

Beneficiaries:

• organisations for the visually impaired and hearing impaired
• libraries which provide services to visually impaired and hearing impaired

Purposes:

• non-commercial, for the benefit of the visually impaired and hearing impaired persons

Usage:

• reproduction
• distribution

Subject Matter:

• works
• performances
• phonograms
• film fixations
• broadcasts

Compensation:

• no compensation required

Attribution:

• no attribution required

Other Conditions:

• works must be used in a form perceivable by visually impaired and hearing impaired
• use is limited to the necessary in the case of the relevant impairment

Introduced/last updated: 22 April 2004

Remarks: The exception extends to neighbouring rights as per Section 54(3)2 of the CA 'Restrictions on Rights of the Neighbouring Rightholders'.