Not sure whether "nos" is now or not!
In fact copyright is now being made more disability friendly in the
Copyright (Visually Impaired Persons) Bill, which (broadly) allows VI
people to make copies to make them more accessible for their own use.
However the definition of VI in the Bill is even more restrictive than
the industry guidelines that it supposedly follows, and will apply to
very few dyslexic people, who, I suggest, account for by far the most
people doing scanning/OCR. The legislation will be clearly
discriminatory against those reading impaired people who are dyslexic.
The bill is at
http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm200102/cmbills/13
1/2002131.pdf.
Like most dis-forum members we will have few compunctions about
continuing to aid and abet the infringement of copyright by
recommending/supplying/supporting/training in the use of scanners and
OCR for making text more accessible to dyslexic people. But it's a pity
that the opportunity is not being taken to regularise this, despite
representations by the BDA. I'm sure that, with a will, it would have
been possible to stretch the definition of VI to cover the visual
processing/decoding problems that many dyslexic people experience.
Regards
Ian Litterick
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> From: Discussion list for disabled students and their support
> staff. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of A Velarde
> Sent: 24 July 2002 16:56
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> Subject: Re: Fees/Essential texts
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> Ref: Copying/scanning: The challenge her is that copyright
> law has nos been
> modified by SENDA/DDA and the student will need to ask for
> permission to
> each copyright holder. Andy Velarde
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