Unless British publishers have finally reached a new agreement (after years of prevaricating), dyslexic students are obliged to follow the same fair use arrangements as other students. Only blind and visually impaired students are allowed to have personal copies of whole texts made. The obvious source for more information is a university library, which generally is obliged to keep up with legislation and legal standing in this area.
From: Pauline McInnes <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Digitisation for dyslexic students
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Tuesday, 27 January, 2009, 2:44 PM
I may have asked this question before, but it’s just raised its head again here at Roehampton.
We have a digitisation service, whereby we can digitise books and journal articles for students with visual impairments and those whose physical impairments make it very difficult to manipulate a book.
We have just had a request in, asking us if we can digitise materials for severely dyslexic students. My understanding is that this would break the copyright laws, does anyone know this for sure?
Also, if we could do this for severely dyslexic students, how would we measure who out of our 400 or so dyslexic students really and truly needed their books in a digital format, does anyone have any ideas on what indicator we might use to determine this?
I look forward to hearing from.
Kind regards
Pauline McInnes
Head of Disability Services
Student Services
Roehampton University
Roehampton Lane
London
SW15 5PJ
Tel: 020 8392 3366
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