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

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I think that the main point in this, like all copyright cases, is
complete relinquishment of the material. If you give the modified
materialto another student and relinquish your right to the material
(you don't keep any copy, digital or otherwise) it's completely legal.
Same as if I sold a CD I had not ripped to someone else.

On 2/6/09, Dennis Clark <dennisgclark at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 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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