[blindlaw] Accessible legislation/law beyond 17 U.S.C. § 121

[Dennis Clark]

Hello,
Does this mean that I can not give my Braille calculus book to another 
student, or sell it to him for the same price I paid for the thermoforming 
of the book?  A strict reading of the Chafee amendment would appear to 
prohibit this.  The NFB is setting up a website to assist us in 
redistributing our Braille books to others.  Should we worry about copyright 
infringement?
Dennis

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Pepper" <b75205 at gmail.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 9:57 PM
Subject: Re: [blindlaw]Accessible legislation/law beyond 17 U.S.C. § 121


Here is the law:
(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of section
106<http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/uscode17/usc_sec_17_00000106----000-.html>,
it is not an infringement of copyright for an authorized entity to reproduce
or to distribute copies or phonorecords of a previously published,
nondramatic literary work if such copies or phonorecords are reproduced or
distributed in specialized formats exclusively for use by blind or other
persons with disabilities.
(b) (1) Copies or phonorecords to which this section applies shall— (A) not
be reproduced or distributed in a format other than a specialized format
exclusively for use by blind or other persons with disabilities;
(B) bear a notice that any further reproduction or distribution in a format
other than a specialized format is an infringement; and
(C) include a copyright notice identifying the copyright owner and the date
of the original publication.
(2) The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to standardized,
secure, or norm-referenced tests and related testing material, or to
computer programs, except the portions thereof that are in conventional
human language (including descriptions of pictorial works) and displayed to
users in the ordinary course of using the computer programs.
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