Jonathan Chetwynd wrote:
"The Disability Equality Duty will apply, from December 2006, to the BBC
, Channel 4 and the Welsh Fourth Channel (S4C). "
Right, but that's irrelevant to my point. That simply means that those
organisations have to put the effort in to promoting disability equality, it
has nothing to do with when you can legally make copies of stuff without
infringing someone's copyright.
I have actually just gone back and read the definition of literary and
artistic works, and I'd think a website (and indeed its photographs) were
actually covered by the C(VIP)A, contrary to what Bill Thompson wrote below,
which would mean that you could make a more accessible website for visually
impaired people, as long as that was all you were doing and you were a
not-for-profit body or an educational establishment. Obviously, IANAL.
ATB,
Matthew
On 12 Jun 2006, at 23:31, Matthew Somerville wrote:
Jonathan Chetwynd wrote:
the application I am describing, promoting and developing benefits
people with a learning disability so your quote may be relevant:
"....not for profit playing of sound recordings and to help visually
impaired people."
Sadly, the latter only applies to printed material, normally on a
one-to-one basis. The Copyright (Visually Impaired Persons) Act 2002
"lets people with a visual impairment to make their own accessible
versions of printed copyright material, and allows schools and
not-for-profit bodies to make multiple copies for use by people with
visual impairment." - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3899685.stm
The Act is here: http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2002/20020033.htm
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