[nfb-talk] Important: Help Keep the Blind Out Of the Literary Ghetto

[John G. Heim]

The document on copyright.gov mentions that the opposition comes from the 
movie industry and the software industry. It mentions the name of 2 
organizations who's comments it was rebutting. So if you look at the 
document I provided a link to, you can probably find the comments by the 
other organizations.

But basically, it's going to boil down to money.  I doubt that the movie and 
software industries have legitimate concerns. But business is business. A 
business will always try to avoid anything that *might* cost them money. And 
if a few million blind people get screwed over in the process, well, that's 
too bad. But business is business.

Civilization is the process of finding the most efficient and fair rules for 
us to all live by. Letting market forces have their way doesn't always lead 
the the best solution to a given problem.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel Zimba" <jzimba at cavtel.net>
To: "NFB Talk Mailing List" <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 3:52 PM
Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Important: Help Keep the Blind Out Of the Literary 
Ghetto


> are there any links to information about the supposed opposition and the 
> concerns which are being raised?
>
> On 5/29/2009 3:35 PM, John G. Heim wrote:
>> Here is a link to the best commentary I can find about the proposed 
>> copyright exceptions for materials for the blind:
>>
>> http://www.copyright.gov/docs/sccr/comments/2009/reply/rrangnath.pdf
>>
>> Here is a link to a document with details about the prosal itself:
>>
>> http://kestudies.org/ojs/index.php/kes/article/viewPDFInterstitial/43/79
>>
>>
>> It certainly seems to make sense to me. And there's no doubt that a lot 
>> of thought by some very knowledgable people went into the proposal.
>>
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