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

[Kelby Carlson]

It's not on Bookshare in the US either.

On 3/28/17, Paul Harpur via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Honestly I did not and I am chasing it up right now.
>
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> Ebook for the Print Disabled
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> 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.
>>
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