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Old 05-29-2009, 10:12 AM   #16
Greg Anos
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Originally Posted by sirbruce View Post
I'm afraid you need to read the proposal. Here's the a relevant portion:



In other words, the visually disadvantaged can get it for free. Everyone else will have to renumerate the copyright owners on "adequate" terms not determined by the copyright owner.

So, for example, if I sell my book for $10, and the Virginia M. Woolf foundation makes a large-format version of that book without my authorization, they can sell or rent it to everyone, at the lower price they choose, for their profit, on indeterminate renumeration terms that are going to be set by the government, not by my contract.

Ahem... Not everyone. Only those with visual impairment. That is explicitly stated in the text. If said people can't use your product anyway as is, what have you lost? People don't buy things they can't use...
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