- From: Wayne Crotts <wcrotts@arches.uga.edu>
- Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 22:04:15 -0400
- To: "'Web Accessibility Initiative'" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
> I am getting frustrated trying to find web content an 8 yo > can use without > someone reading it to him, and dismayed by the lack of illustrations with Pardon me for saying this, but it sounds like you are frustrated by copyright law. Most enthusiasts or others cannot put illustrations and photographs on their web site without getting 'cease and desist' letters from publishers who hold rights to those illustrations and photographs. In general, U.S. copyright law is particular as to the use of copyright material. Even converting copyright material to be alternatively accessible like converting it to Braille or to audio-tape is prohibited (at least as interpreted by our university's legal affairs team). I say all this to suggest that this is not so much an accessibility issue as a content and editorial issue. Wayne Wayne Crotts Information/Computer Services Institute on Human Development and Disability The University of Georgia Athens, GA 30602
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