The history of the efforts done in WIPO to improve accessibility to universal knowledge for  the persns who are blind or have other disabilities is long and starts in 1981, when  the governing bodies of WIPO and UNESCO agreed to create a Working Group on Access by the Visually and Auditory Handicapped to Material Reproducing Works Produced by Copyright. The group meeting took place on October 25-27, 1982 in Paris, and produced a report that included model exceptions for national copyright laws.

Det rumänska Piratpartiet anordnade den 6 augusti ett evenemang i Studenternas kulturhus i centrala Bukarest. Temat var internet, yttrandefrihet och politik, samt möjligheten för Piratpartiet att utgöra ett nytt politiskt alternativ för ett Rumänien med demokrati i svajning.