There's also a link to the RNIB website
http://www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/publicwebsite/public_c
vipsact2002.hcsp
gives a run down of the implications etc
John
-----Original Message-----
From: Jenni Knox [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 08 December 2003 10:51
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Can you send it on to all the Forum you know?[Scanned]
The best person to contact about this would be David Mann, Campaigns
Officer, Public Policy Dept at the RNIB
[log in to unmask] as he has been drafting briefing notes on the new act
and can fill you in on all the details.
Jenni
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Conway [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 10:06 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Can you send it on to all the Forum you know?[Scanned]
>
> I've just received this from Eversheds - maybe I'm just ignorant but I'd
never heard of it - is there wider guidance available somewhere on this
topic?
>
> "In our last issue we described how the
> Copyright (Visually Impaired Persons)
> Act 2002 will make it easier for visually
> impaired people to access copyright
> materials. The Copyright (Visually
> Impaired Persons) Act 2002
> (Commencement) Order 2003 has now
> been made. The Act comes into force on
> 31 October 2003 immediately after the
> Regulations 2003 come into force.
> These regulations make wide-ranging
> changes to UK copyright law in order to
> implement Directive 2001/29/EC on
> the harmonisation of certain aspects of
> copyright and related rights in the
> information society. An article on these
> wider changes to copyright law
> will appear in a forthcoming issue
> of Insight.
>
> Dr John S Conway
> Principal lecturer in soil science / Disability Officer
> Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, Glos GL7 6JS
> 01285 652531 ext 2234 fax 01285 650219
> http://www.royagcol.ac.uk/~john_conway/
> email [log in to unmask]
>
>
>
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