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Originally Posted by sirbruce
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.
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Originally Posted by Shaggy
Only if you refuse to offer one yourself. As long as you make a version available that meets the requirements for being accessible to the disabled, then you retain control and profits.
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He does have a point there.
Let's say, sirbruce makes a book, sells it in one format only for $10. That foundation makes that large format, which sirbruce didn't want to do, as he knew other people would anyway. Why would that foundation have to profit by it?
Actually, 4b is already legal here, for every person. As long as you use the copy for personal use, don't give it away, you can make as many copies you want.
I think that's one thing that should be implicity added to the copyright laws at that makes perfect sense. The problem is solved then too. Somebody buys the book, can't read it because of dissability, goes to that Foundation (which I assume is one for people with dissabilities?), asks them to make it into a format so they can read it and they're off, with a
legal copy of the bought they just bought. No need to distribute it further for a lower price.
I still don't see why people with a dissability need a lower price on the written word than the people without a dissability.
The only real thing that needs to be changed, is making the format shifting legal (and DRM abbolished, naturally...)