Paul Harpur

Discrimination, Copyright and Equality (eBook, ePUB)

Opening the e-Book for the Print-Disabled

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108206525
• Artikelnr.: 49046502

Autorenporträt

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 Blatt Institute, College of Law, Syracuse University, New York. He has led a range of projects, including an International Labour Organization project assessing labour rights in the South Pacific, with a particular focus on the rights of persons with disabilities.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Gerard Goggin; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. How technology
has created the possibility of opening the book: from hard copy to e-books;
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; 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; 4. The role
of copyright laws in restricting access to information and contributing to
the book famine; 5. Exceptions to rights-holders' exclusivity provides
limited relief from the disabling impact of copyright; 6.
Anti-discrimination laws help protect persons with disabilities against
digital disablement, but who qualifies for protection?; 7. Causing digital
disablement is not a trigger for regulation by anti-discrimination laws:
ignoring capacity in favour of prescribed relationships; 8. The prohibition
against discrimination: regulating for equality through retrofitting
inaccessible systems; 9. Introducing positive duties in promoting equality
outcomes for persons with disabilities: the United Kingdom Public Sector
Equality Duty reducing digital disablement; 10. The right to digital
equality in action: protections under the Canadian Charter of Rights and
Freedoms, and human rights acts; 11. United States regulatory interventions
targeting disability inclusive digital environments; 12. The enforcement of
legal duties: protecting copyright or promoting reading equality?; Closing
thoughts and new options to reduce digital disablement; 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; Index.