Paul Harpur on print disability and copyright

Hosted on the IP:KCE site, you can find a podcast of an interview I did with Paul Harpur and Jessica Coates.

Paul is a solicitor and PhD candidate at QUT Law School who lost vision in both eyes as a young boy. In this interview, he discusses some of the difficulties he has in obtaining access to copyright material for his research and work activities, and proposes a potential solution in the form of a national electronic database of books for use by people with a print disability.

Download the 10 minute interview: 5MB OGG or 10MB MP3.

Edit: since the creation of this interview, the US have announced that they will create a new exception for the circumvention of technological protection measures on documents which prevent blind people from using screen readers. See the US Copyright Office's rulemaking. This is a prime example of Australia's laws lagging behind their US equivalents, placing blind Australians at a huge disadvantage for no possible benefit.