[blindlaw] Discrimination, Copyright and Equality: Opening the Ebook for the Print Disabled

[Kelby Carlson]

You realize that this book isn't available as an ebook on the
Cambridge website, don't you?

On 3/28/17, Paul Harpur via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> On 30 March 2017 my latest monograph, :”Discrimination, Copyright and
> Equality: Opening the Ebook for the Print Disabled”, will be released
> in Europe and the UK.  It can be found on the Cambridge University
> Press website:
>  www.cambridge.org/9781107119000
> This monograph contributes to disability rights scholarship and legal
> advocacy.  It analyses the interaction between anti-discrimination and
> copyright laws, in the international human rights and copyright
> jurisdictions, as well as in the national jurisdictions in Australia,
> Canada, the UK and USA.  This work builds on international and
> domestic notions of digital equality and rights to access information.
> The core thesis of this monograph is that technology now creates the
> possibility that everyone in the world, regardless of their abilities
> or disabilities, should be able to access the written word.  Why then
> is there still a book famine where 5% to 7% of the world’s books are
> available to people with print disabilities in wealthy, advanced
> economies, and less than 1% in the majority of countries?
>
> While anti-discrimination and equality laws operate to enable access,
> these laws have limited impact on the overriding impact of market
> forces and copyright laws that focus on restricting access to
> information.  For decades the print disabled have been denied reading
> equality and have instead had their access to information limited by
> legal frameworks and resource allocations that tolerated minor
> exceptions to the mainstream consumption of books and information.
> The recent United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with
> Disabilities (‘CRPD’), and other international developments, have
> swept in a new disability politics which is altering what is expected
> from laws and institutions.  The human rights paradigm has created the
> possibility of achieving equality.  The challenge is to analyse
> barriers to this dream of reading equality and craft laws and
> institutions that open the E-Book for the world’s print disabled.
>
> Dr Paul Harpur | Senior Lecturer
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