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Discrimination, Copyright and Equality: Opening the e-Book for the Print-Disabled (Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series) - Hardcover

Book 13 of 23: Cambridge Disability Law and Policy

Paul Harpur

 
9781107119000: Discrimination, Copyright and Equality: Opening the e-Book for the Print-Disabled (Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1107119006 ISBN 13: 9781107119000
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2017

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.

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About the Author

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.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2017
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1107119006
ISBN 13 
9781107119000
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
300