[Athen] Copyright law woes

[Wink Harner]

Or the library. Might the library have a digital copy you can use to
convert?

Wink Harner
Accessibility Consultant/Alternative Text Production
The Foreign Type

Portland OR
foreigntype at gmail.com
480-984-0034

This email was dictated using Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Please forgive
quirks, misrecognitions, or errata .


On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 4:22 PM John Sellmeyer <John.Sellmeyer at marist.edu>
wrote:


> Which wouldn’t be all that bad if they did it the correct way and secured

> rights to the material and had it produced on campus, so at least the copy

> center might have a digital copy...

>

> JS

>

> Sent from my iPhone

>

> On Jun 12, 2020, at 7:09 PM, Deborah Armstrong <armstrongdeborah at fhda.edu>

> wrote:

>

> 

>

> *[EXTERNAL EMAIL]*

>

> So here’s a typical scenario: instructor posts a reading assignment on

> Canvas today that’s due by middle of next week. The instructor grabbed a

> literature anthology off her shelf at home, scanned a few pages and posted

> a PDF.

>

>

>

> There’s no time for the poor student to get me the material to convert to

> an alternate format. I just got a panicked email from a student in just

> such a situation.I told her to have the instructor either email me the scan

> or email me the source information.

>

>

>

> The adjunct faculty is especially bad at this; instead of having all their

> materials ready at the start of the quarter they randomly post things on

> canvas as the due dates come up.

>

>

>

> Now if it wasn’t for copyright law, I’d simply send the ebook of the

> entire Norton anthology of literature to the offending instructor, tell

> them to lift the relevant readings from the ebook and post their own

> accessible copies.

>

>

>

> But copyright law actually prevents me from doing this.

>

>

>

> And most instructors don’t have the book so they either have to type it in

> by hand or post a picture of a page.

>

>

>

> We can scream as much as we like about accessible content but no

> instructor wants to spend the extra hours typing things in.

>

>

>

> And it is impossible it seems to get them to stick to just one textbook

> and assign all their readings from there.

>

>

>

> I wish we could either force them to stick with one book instead of

> pulling readings from hither and yon or force legal entities to disregard

> copyright!

>

>

>

> We have all this training on how to create accessible content but the

> elephant in the room is that they ***DON’T*** create their own content.

> They pull it from everywhere!

>

>

>

> --Debee

>

>

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