- From: Léonie Watson <tink@tink.uk>
- Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 09:37:46 +0100
- To: "'Gill Whitney'" <g.whitney@mdx.ac.uk>, "'Howard Leicester'" <howard_leicester@btconnect.com>, "'w3c WAI List'" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
- Cc: "'Long, Alison'" <Alison.Long@rnib.org.uk>
Thanks Gill, David and Howard. It seems that disabled people have brought cases against organisations for failing to provide access to copyrighted/protected content, but not that people with disabilities have been prosecuted for infringing copyright in the pursuit of access to it. Léonie. > -----Original Message----- > From: Gill Whitney [mailto:g.whitney@mdx.ac.uk] > Sent: 20 May 2016 14:41 > To: Howard Leicester <howard_leicester@btconnect.com>; tink@tink.uk; > 'w3c WAI List' <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org> > Cc: 'Long, Alison' <Alison.Long@rnib.org.uk> > Subject: RE: Disabled people and copyright infringement > > Leonie, > > I asked our library in case there had been an issue with a student, there > answer probably told you a lot of stuff you already knew - but I was pleased > how serious they took the enquiry. > > They said - "Hi Gill > I'm not aware of any such cases and have done a very quick search via > Westlaw and Lexis, (our law databases) but found no such reported cases. > Any cases involving disabled persons or accessibility are usually against > organisations for failing to make things/places accessible. > A relevant case is Author's Guild v Hathtrust: > https://www.eff.org/cases/authors-guild-v-hathitrust. Although not against > an individual person, the court opinion contains cited US cases that may be > useful. > > There are currently international movements to make copyright content > more accessible to people with disabilities worldwide such as the WIPO > Marrakesh Treaty which addresses the legal barriers to the international > exchange of these works - it creates exemptions to copyright law that allow > for the production and international exchange of accessible books without > the permission of right holders and the Accessible Books Consortium (ABC), > launched in June 2014, which tackles practical barriers to access. > > Léonie could try contacting RNIB: http://www.rnib.org.uk/ Disability Rights > UK: http://www.disabilityrightsuk.org/ > WIPO: > http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ip/marrakesh/summary_marrakesh.html > or the World Blind Union: > http://www.worldblindunion.org/English/Pages/default.aspx > > I can put the question to the Copyright Mail list but it would be helpful if I > could offer a little background as to Léonie's research. > > Al the best > Kate" > > Cheers > Gill > > -----Original Message----- > From: Howard Leicester [mailto:howard_leicester@btconnect.com] > Sent: 20 May 2016 10:30 > To: tink@tink.uk; 'w3c WAI List' > Cc: 'Long, Alison' > Subject: RE: Disabled people and copyright infringement > > Hi Leonie, > > The UK's book repository for disabled students, now 'Book Share' run by the > Royal Nat. Instute of Blind people and Dyslexia Action: > > http://www.load2learn.org > > may be able to help. > > (Alison Long Cc'd in for contact). > > Perhaps no specific court cases, but possibly steps required with and for > publishers to avoid infringements (with implications partially answering your > question?). > > Extra best, > Howard (Leicester) > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Léonie Watson [mailto:tink@tink.uk] > Sent: 20 May 2016 09:38 > To: 'w3c WAI List' <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org> > Subject: Disabled people and copyright infringement > > Hello WAI IG, > > I'm looking for examples of law suits and/or court cases, where people with > disabilities have been sued/prosecuted for copyright or other copy > protection infringement (anywhere in the world) because they were trying > to access content that would otherwise be inaccessible to them. > > Rudimentary online searches have turned up nothing useful, so I'm hoping > that someone/some people on this list will be able to point me in the right > direction! Thanks. > > > Léonie. > > > -- > @LeonieWatson tink.uk Carpe diem > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > Please note that all incoming post to Middlesex University is opened and > scanned by our digital document handler and then emailed to the recipient. > If you do not want your correspondence to processed in this way please > email the recipient directly. Parcels, couriered items and recorded delivery > items will not be opened or scanned.
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