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Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series: Discrimination, Copyright and Equality: Opening the e-Book for the Print-Disabled
Paul Harpur
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Description for Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series: Discrimination, Copyright and Equality: Opening the e-Book for the Print-Disabled
hardcover. This book explores how restrictive copyright laws deny access to information for the print disabled, despite equality laws protecting access. Series: Cambridge Disability, Law and Policy Series. Num Pages: 300 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: LNDC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Cambridge Disability, Law and Policy Series
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
359
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107119000
SKU
V9781107119000
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-14
About Paul Harpur
Paul Harpur is Senior Lecturer at T. C. Beirne School of Law, the University of Queensland. He has participated in a number of prestigious research fellowships, including as an International Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Disability Law and Policy, Institute for Lifecourse and Society, National University of Ireland, Galway and as a Distinguished International Visiting Fellow at the Burton ... Read more
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