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Originally Posted by Daithi
The blind and non-English speakers are most definately *NOT* at the same level of disadvantage. First, as you yourself pointed out, a non-English speaker can learn the English language. A blind person cannot learn to see.
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I already pointed out examples where this logic does not work, which you did not respond to.
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Originally Posted by Daithi
However, in terms of reading a book there is another difference between a non-English speaker and the blind. There is a financial incentive to produce books for non-English speakers.
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Depends on the language. What about something suitably obscure? And there's only a financial incentive as long as it's not undercut by a law that says they should have them for free.
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Originally Posted by Daithi
In fact, producing books for the blind is almost certainly a money losing prospect, and producing these books is almost always an act of charity, which is kind of the whole point of the exemption.
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Again, the proposed treaty would completely force it to be so. It does not have to be so now.