[access-uk] Re: Ethics of book sharing services

  • From: "Justin R" <mypc128@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 15:45:57 +0100


"yusuf" <yusufaosman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Subject: [access-uk] Re: Ethics of book >sharing services 


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The American edition (audio) was >available at exactly the same time as the > print because (and I am guessing here) >the ADA insists on it. Also it was possible to download the Order of the >Phoenix from bookshare within hours of the publication. Why have we not got a >similar thing to bookshare in this country? Or even better why doesn't >the UN do something useful for once >and get an international agreement >exepting print handycapped people >from copyright laws all over the world so that where ever a person lives they can access things like bookshare?

I get very passionate about this subject because the right to read is a fundamental human right in my opinion. Reading is so much a part of developing the mind and the soul and we're being denied that right.


I couldn't agree more with all of that. Interest idea on the UN should be getting involved in this. Thinking about it, I'm somewhat surprised this issue seems to be missing from their human rights agenda for the world. I was surprised to here, a long while ago, that copyright prevented the enlargening of printed material as well as converting it into audio for the use of us. I couldn't understand this as, well, how else do we access the reading that we'd like to/need to do.

I've nothing else I can add other than, totally agreeing and believing that the copyright laws need to sorted in a way where we can get rights to read acknowledged at the same time.

Justin


Ok I'll get off my soap box and go back to spell checking my work instead.(smile)
Yusuf 

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