Matthew,
given the BBC's remit might this mean they need to ensure that they
have copyright clearance, if they need it?
regards
Jonathan Chetwynd
On 13 Jun 2006, at 08:29, Matthew Somerville wrote:
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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