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Originally Posted by DawnFalcon
Well, you're out of step with UK law there, since Schools and Universities (and a few other organisations, for limited purposes) can make multiple large-print copies, as long as they're for educational use (and they can't be kept after the course is finished).
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It's a mixed bag here--though I'm not sure about laws specific to large print copies for the blind.
The university I work for is actually being sued regarding profs making articles, chapters of books etc. available for students to read for class (i.e. putting them up on the Ulearn class sites for our courses that are only accessible to students registered in the course).
The outcome of the lawsuit will have a big impact on what's fair use for education and what's not.
The general guidelines in the school now are that it's ok to do so if it's factual info, and giving it out won't keep people from buying the source material. i.e. a giving a journal article to students won't prevent subscriptions. Giving a chapter or part of a chapter of a book won't take away book sales--but giving all or most of the book will.
But the school is being sued over those so we'll see what happens. School is fighting that it's fair use, publishers are suing that it's not.