Discrimination, Copyright and Equality (Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series)
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- Synopsis
- 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. A valuable resource for advocates, law makers, librarians and others who seek to reform laws, policies and practices that reduce reading equality Provides a comparative analysis of how copyright and anti-discrimination laws interact Provides an in-depth analysis of advances in international and domestic laws
- Copyright:
- 2017
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781108206525
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 08/25/17
- Copyrighted By:
- Paul Harpur
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Law, Legal Issues and Ethics
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.