I'll admit this may be out of line, but I'll seize the opportunity to
bring up my personal favorite advocacy issue.
What about my "right" to easy access to texts?
That's a rhetorical question, not really meant to sidetrack discussion
from authors' rights, which, as an author, I also, of course, find
compelling.
I think authors' rights can be retained and blind folks' opportunities
to obtain and read books in a *timely* fashion simultaneously expanded.
My money's worth, albeit *before* I've had enough coffee for today.
Jennifer
On Thu,
21 Jan 1999, Mairian Corker wrote:
> As a post script to Mark's comment before Christmas about copyright, I
> thought mailbase members might be interested in this:
>
> Article 27 of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1947) states that
>
> 'Everyone has the right to freely participate in the cultural life of the
> community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its
> benefits (sic).
>
> Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material
> interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of
> which he (sic) is the author.'
>
> What this means is that authors have moral rights of paternity (the right
> to be identified as the author of a copyright work) and integrity (the
> right to object to derogatory treatment of their work), and these rights
> are also in the UK Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 and run
> concurrently with copyright protection.
>
> Any comments, particularly on the right of integrity and academic freedom
> in disability studies?
>
>
> Mairian
>
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