Book contents
- Discrimination, Copyright and EqualityOpening the E-Book for the Print-Disabled
- Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series
- Discrimination, Copyright and Equality
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword
- 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 Human 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
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
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 June 2017
Book contents
- Discrimination, Copyright and EqualityOpening the E-Book for the Print-Disabled
- Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series
- Discrimination, Copyright and Equality
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword
- 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 Human 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
Summary
This chapter analyses international human rights law to demonstrate that persons with print disabilities have a right to access the written word in digital formats. The primary means of realising this right to read is through using information communication technologies. Information communication technologies include the means to consume E-Books and other digital content. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (‘CRPD’) has swept in a new disability human rights paradigm which transforms the rights of persons with disabilities to accessible information communication technologies. The new disability human rights model rejects the negative aspects of the medical model and advances the social model and critical studies school in order to create a new understanding of how disability should be constructed by law and society. This chapter will analyse how the right to access information communication technologies enables persons with disabilities to exercise their right to read when exercising their rights to education, work, freedom of expression and participation in the cultural life of the community, and recreatio
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- Discrimination, Copyright and EqualityOpening the e-Book for the Print-Disabled, pp. 32 - 63Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2017