On 10/31/96, John Noble wrote:
>
> Not any more. See the new Copyright Office appropriations bill
> (HR 3754, Pub.L. 104-197):
Sigh. Naturally, I expect substantive law changes in an appropriations bill.
> It amends Federal copyright law to provide that it is not an
> infringement of copyright for an "authorized entity" to reproduce or
> to distribute copies or phonorecords of a previously published,
> nondramatic literary work in "specialized formats" exclusively for
> use by blind or other persons with disabilities. Requires the copies
> or phonorecords to: (1) bear a notice that any further reproduction
> or distribution in a format other than a specialized format is an
> infringement; and (2) include a copyright notice identifying the
> copyright owner and the date of the original publication.
Would that mean that making a Braille copy of a script of (say) West Side Story would still be an infringement (assuming it was until now), right? Why the limitation to "nondramatic literary work(s)"?
Richard A. Schafer
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