Screen LibraryDiscrimination, copyright, and equality : opening the e-book for the print-disabled /
"While equality laws operate to enable access to information, these laws have limited power over the overriding impact of market forces and copyright laws that focus on restricting access to information. Technology now creates opportunities for everyone in the world, regardless of their abiliti...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Cambridge disability, law and policy series
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| Summary: |
"While equality laws operate to enable access to information, these laws have limited power over the overriding impact of market forces and copyright laws that focus on restricting access to information. Technology now creates opportunities for everyone in the world, regardless of their abilities or disabilities, to be able to access the written word - yet the print disabled are denied reading equality, and have their access to information limited by laws protecting the mainstream use and consumption of information. The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the World Inte "Laws and institutions recognised that persons with print disabilities could not read standard books printed on paper. This gave rise to an exemption in copyright laws that is analysed in chapter 5 of this monograph. Predominantly, charities that assist the blind have utilised these exemptions to provide persons with print disabilities a library of books in alternative or accessible formats. Charities, such as the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, the Royal National Institute of Blind People, and Vision Australia |
| Carrier Form: | xix, 342 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781107119000 (hardback) : 1107119006 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | K637 |
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D998.2 D997.1 |
| Call Number: | D998.2/H295 |
| Contents: | 1. How technology has created the possibility of opening the book: from hard copy to e-books -- 2. Access to information communication technologies, universal design and the new disability human rights paradigm introduced by the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities -- 3. The weakening of the exception paradigm: the World Intellectual Property Organization changes path with the Marrakesh Treaty to facilitate access to published works for persons who are blind, visually impaired, or otherwise print disabled -- 4. The role of copyright laws in restricting access to information |