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Originally Posted by sirbruce
You're misreading it. 4(c).1 says for-profit entities can engage in regular for-profit exempted reproduction (fair use, etc.). 4(c).2 says that regardless of whether or not it's in "accessible format", they can reproduce it for rental or free so long as it's ONLY to the visually impaired. 4(c).3 says that if it's not in an "accessible format", they can reproduce a rental or free version with compensation to the author. This third option does NOT require the "accessible format" they provide be accessibly ONLY by the visually impaired. This is exactly what Virginia M. Woolf does with large-print ebooks; anyone can download them.
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Actually, let me back off from that slighty; 4(a) says that the right is to "supply that accessible format, or copies of that format, to a visually impaired person by any means". I would still maintain that this does not require the person to prove they are visually impaired; I could be acquiring the copy FOR a visually impaired person, for example. Certainly supplying via another purchaser is one of "any means".