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Amendment of Copyright Act may affect print-disabled
CHENNAI: When G Udayaraj, a final year student, wants to read a book, he goes to the computer lab, dons a headset and listens to one of the 30,000 books
that Presidency College’s English department has converted into digital format.
Udayaraj has very low vision, which means everything from class notes to novels are easier to ‘read’ on the computer.
But a proposed amendment to copyright act might just change the way print- disabled people like Udayaraj ‘read’. The Copyright (Amendment) Bill 2010, introduced in RS on Monday, says there will be copyright exemption only for converting books into special formats such as Braille and sign language [Section 52 (1) (zb)
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