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Regarding the replies to my first missive: >>You might be able to pick something up from 'The >>Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd.' I've tried here and the standard CLA regulations forbid electronic storage of documents which rules out scanning. >Contact the RNIB on this one as I am sure there are >special dispensations that exist I'm trying to contact someone at the RNIB who can give me a definitive answer as to whether they have an agreement on scanning. There is, however, a new agreement between the RNIB and the CLA which extends the Educational Licence Agreement to cover photocopying a whole book or journal in larger print. In the text this new agreement also explicity forbids electronic storage which, again, rules out scanning. All the details are at: http://www.cla.co.uk/www/rnibpro.htm Do any of the software vendors on this list have any idea what the legal situation is relating to the PC-based document readers they sell? As far as I can make out if you use them on copyrighted material you're contravening the CLA regulations. Dean Furber FACE Project Officer Library Services University of the West of England http://www.uwe.ac.uk/library/itdev/face/ %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%