[senit] copyright and colour photocopying

From: "Mitchell, Dave (ChS-ISSS)" <dmitchell at worcestershire.gov.uk>

The current schools copying licence is at http://www.cla.co.uk/assets/209/school_licence_england_and_wales.pdf

This now contains new pan-disability wording at clause 7 on

VISUALLY IMPAIRED AND DISABLED PERSONS:

7.1 The provisions of this clause shall only apply where an Authorised Person is visually impaired or otherwise disabled and by reason of such
visual impairment or disability is unable to read or access a Licensed Copy made under the provisions of this Licence.

And it also refers to the DDA for the definition of people covered.

So dyslexic and other reading impaired students are now covered if they are covered by the DDA. It would be hard to argue that any reading impairment that wasn't easily correctable (eg by glasses) was not covered.

This is all new, and has not yet been widely publicised, but is good news and makes a change to the Copyright Act less urgent tho still ultimately necessary.

The clause
"7.2.5 (a) such changes do not amount to a derogatory treatment of the work;"
arguably still puts problems in the way of meeting the needs of those with general learning difficulties who may need abbreviation, symbols etc. This may need further clarification.

Guidance on what is reasonable for those without a reading impairment is given elsewhere in the document, (eg clauses 5 & 6).

Do all schools sign up to and pay for this licence?

Ian Litterick
Associate Member, Right to Read Campaign.

Executive Chairman
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-----Original Message-----
From: senit-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk [mailto:senit-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf Of Jamie Munro
Sent: 23 June 2008 11:00
To: senit at lists.becta.org.uk; Mitchell, Dave (ChS-ISSS)
Subject: Re: [senit] copyright and colour photocopying

It's a very fuzzy area but as I understand the current position, you can
currently make a digital copy for someone who is visually impaired or has a
physical disability that prevents them from using a conventional book but
NOT for someone who has a learning difficulty.

What we need is something like the NIMAS legislation in the US that requires
publishers to make material available in accessible formats.

It seems mad that publishers start with an electronic version of a
publication, print it on paper, use valuable resources getting it to the
educational establishment, who them have to spend time and materials putting
it back into an electronic format.

Jamie

> From: "Mitchell, Dave (ChS-ISSS)" <dmitchell at worcestershire.gov.uk>
> Reply-To: <senit at lists.becta.org.uk>
> Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:45:24 +0100
> To: <senit at lists.becta.org.uk>
> Conversation: [senit] copyright and colour photocopying
> Subject: Re: [senit] copyright and colour photocopying
>
> Sarah
> thanks for raising this agin.
> I cannot find the link but there is an explanation on a gov't site... name
> escapes me ... CPA (copyight protection agency?)
>
> If my memory serves well (?) either Adrian Higginbotham (becta) or Ian
> Butterworth (The ACE Centre) know something here
>
> I have been acting on the the folllowing basis:
> - does copyright apply? if so then apply following. If not... do what you
> want.
> - own an original (ie can demonstrate I paid for a paper version)
> - digital copy can be made to enable soemone who has a sensory/physical or
> learning difficulty that results in them not being able to access the paper
> version
> - do not copy the digital copy to others.
>
> .......
>
> this is how I operate:
> - does copyright apply?
> - no, then look at project guttenburg and other sites that have e-versions of
> books. If not available then follow below
> -yes, then acquire a legitimate copy of the publication and retain receipt.
> - to convert books:
> - take the book to a printer / print dept and ask them to cut off the binding
> (usually 2/3 mm is sufficient off perfect binding)
> - take the cut book to a scanner that has automatic document feeder  (adf)
> with  duplex scanning and feed  chapter by chapter (there will be a limit to
> the number of pages an adf can handle at any one time) (we use HP mfp... which
> scans and email a pdf of each chapter to my email address)
> - use OCR to convert the scanned documents. (we use Scan2Text or ClaroRead
> Plus (which has Scan2Text)
> - copy text to appropriate application (fascinating when copied to
> Communicate: in Print!!!)
> - also produce MP3
>
>
>
> Dave Mitchell
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: senit-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk
> [mailto:senit-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk]On Behalf Of Sarah Anderson
> Sent: 21 June 2008 22:02
> To: senit at lists.becta.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [senit] copyright and colour photocopying
>
>
>
> Hi
> I know we've had discussions in the past about copyright but I wanted to raise
> it again.  I'm currently writing our acceptable use of IT policy and thought I
> really ought to included copyright info as it is referred to from the music
> download perspective in Kent's e-safety policy and Becta advice.  I'm
> considering it from the scanning and colour photocopying perspective.
> I've scanned books and made them into powerpoint books for pupils. I know it
> was said this was allowed for pupils with visual impairment but I'm using it
> generally around school. A breach of copyright?  A member of staff made a
> lovely border for her display on 'Funnybones' using part of a picture from the
> book (think this is ok as it's less than 5% of book).  I'm currently making a
> reading activity for a pupil using copied pictures from his ORT book.
> We're due an LA internal IT audit so I wanted to get this right, but please
> tell me if you think I'm being too pernickity (sp?)
> Sarah
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