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Originally Posted by JasonB
I'm going to go back to the original point and weigh in as agreeing with sirbruce and rrburton.
I don't see the validity of forcing material to be available in a format for the blind when it is not similarly forced to be available for groups of other people. The language analogy was a good one and I think it was dismissed too quickly.
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The US (and other countries) already have exceptions to copyright that essentially do this.
Since we're going back to the original story, what this story is about is the WIPO receiving a
proposal for a treaty to add similar exceptions worldwide. The US (and other countries) were attempting to block WIPO from even discussing the
proposed treaty.
That's a different issue from any personal beliefs we have of whether things like the disabilities act are a good idea, or whether being blind is of a similar nature to being poor or not speaking English (which I find to be rediculous).