Discrimination, Copyright and Equality: Opening the e-Book for the Print-Disabled

Paul Harpur

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Discrimination, Copyright and Equality

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Paul Harpur, University of Queensland

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: June 2017
Print publication year:: 2017
Online ISBN:: 9781316340516
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316340516

Subjects:: Intellectual Property, Law, Human Rights
Series:: Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series

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While equality laws operate to enable access to information, these laws have limited power over the overriding impact of market forces and copyright laws that focus on restricting access to information. Technology now creates opportunities for everyone in the world, regardless of their abilities or disabilities, to be able to access the written word – yet the print disabled are denied reading equality, and have their access to information limited by laws protecting the mainstream use and consumption of information. The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the World Intellectual Property Organization's Marrakesh Treaty have swept in a new legal paradigm. This book contributes to disability rights scholarship, and builds on ideas of digital equality and rights to access in its analysis of domestic disability anti-discrimination, civil rights, human rights, constitutional rights, copyright and other equality measures that promote and hinder reading equality.

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Discrimination, Copyright and EqualityOpening the E-Book for the Print-Disabled
pp i-i

Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series - Series page
pp ii-iv

Discrimination, Copyright and Equality - Title page
pp v-v

Copyright page
pp vi-vi

Contents
pp vii-xii

Foreword
pp xiii-xvii

Acknowledgements
pp xviii-xx

Introduction
pp 1-7

1 - How Technology Has Created the Possibility of Opening the Book: From Hard Copy to E-Books
pp 8-31

2 - Access to Information Communication Technologies, Universal Design and the New Disability Human Rights Paradigm Introduced by the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
pp 32-63

3 - The Weakening of the Exception Paradigm: The World Intellectual Property Organization Changes Path with the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired, or Otherwise Print Disabled
pp 64-92

4 - The Role of Copyright Laws in Restricting Access to Information and Contributing to the Book Famine
pp 93-122

5 - Exceptions to Rights-Holders’ Exclusivity Provides Limited Relief from the Disabling Impact of Copyright
pp 123-152

6 - Anti-Discrimination Laws Help Protect Persons with Disabilities against Digital Disablement, but Who Qualifies for Protection?
pp 153-178

7 - Causing Digital Disablement Is Not a Trigger for Regulation by Anti-Discrimination Laws: Ignoring Capacity in Favour of Prescribed Relationships
pp 179-203

8 - The Prohibition against Discrimination: Regulating for Equality through Retrofitting Inaccessible Systems
pp 204-232

9 - Introducing Positive Duties in Promoting Equality Outcomes for Persons with Disabilities: The United Kingdom Public Sector Equality Duty Reducing Digital Disablement
pp 233-255

10 - The Right to Digital Equality in Action: Protections under the Canadian Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms and Human Rights Acts
pp 256-273

11 - United States Regulatory Interventions Targeting Disability-Inclusive Digital Environments
pp 274-291

12 - The Enforcement of Legal Duties: Protecting Copyright or Promoting Reading Equality?
pp 292-320

Closing Thoughts and New Options to Reduce Digital Disablement
pp 321-323

Appendix: List of Anti-Discrimination and Civil Rights Laws and Tribunals/Commissions Impacting on Disability in the Federal and State/Province Jurisdictions in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States
pp 324-334

Index
pp 335-342

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