The WIPO Secretariat in 2008 was requested to present on studies commissioned by WIPO on exceptions and limitations for the visually impaired and libraries and archives and was also asked to commission a new study on exceptions and limitations for the benefit of educational activities, including distance education and the trans-border aspect of it. Member countries have asked WIPO to include the subject of exceptions and limitations to copyright and related rights for the purposes of education, libraries and archives, and disabled persons on the agenda of the Committee and to strengthen international understanding of the need to have adequate limitations, learning from existing models and moving towards agreement on exceptions and limitations for public interest purposes, which, like minimum standards, were to be envisaged in all legislation for the benefit of the international community. As a result, copyright exceptions and limitations is an ongoing focus of the work of WIPO’s Copyright Committee in the past and the coming years. All these developments have been due to the result of the demented international copyright regime which is less balanced than it has been at any point in the past2.