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Originally Posted by wallcraft
I am talking about what "authorized entities" means, and as you suggest, what it means comes from the Chafee Amendment. Recall that the anti-circumvention exemption in question says:
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That definition of "authorized entity" is coming from Chapter 1 Section 121 of copyright law, which is specifically about "Limitations on exclusive rights: reproduction for blind or other people with disabilities". In the scope of Section 121, they're talking about limitations of copyright itself in the case of people with disabilities. That part of copyright law has nothing to do with DRM.
What we're talking about is Chapter 12 Section 1201, which is specifically about "Circumvention of copyright protection systems", specifically circumvention of technological measures that effectively control access to a copyrighted work (aka DRM). That section has nothing to do with being disabled, blind, or visually impaired. If there is a digital text edition from an authorized entity available without TTS restrictions, then that particular work probably fails the "all existing ebook editions of the work" clause. However, nothing in this Section of copyright law says you have to be disabled in order to qualify for the exception if there are no existing ebook editions available that allow TTS.
In other words, if there are versions available with TTS, then use them. If there are not, then you are allowed to bypass the protection system. The only qualification is that it is for a non-infringing use and that you are adversely affected. It has nothing to do with whether or not you are disabled.