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<div class="">With all due respect to Susan and Wink, the claim that purchase is required by copyright law has no basis in copyright law. I am a copyright lawyer and one of the authors of the white paper, which was based in part on a convening of copyright
experts, including lawyers from the University Counsels’ offices at UVA and the University of Michigan, the counsel to the Internet Archive, counsel to the Association of Research Libraries, and my friend Blake Reid, who is a professor at CU's law school and
the Director of the IP Policy Clinic there. (The full list is in the Acknowledgments section of the paper.) I’m sure Blake would be happy to talk to you about the project if you have questions, Susan. He’s an expert in both disability law and copyright law.</div>
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<div class="">I can also assure you that the analysis in the white paper applies expressly to DSOs, universities, and even large groups of universities, and not only to libraries. It is based on legal provisions and precedent that apply broadly to any authorized
entity (in the case of Section 121) and to any lawful user (in the case of Section 107)<span style="font-style: normal;" class="">.</span></div>
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<div class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">Finally, if you wait for
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</span><i class="">another</i> revision of copyright, you may be waiting for a very long time, but luckily we have very recent caselaw AND revisions to copyright that make clear that no purchase is needed before accessible copies are provided to qualified recipients.
The Authors Guild v. HathiTrust case is the <i class="">only </i>case ever to construe Section 121 or to apply Section 107 to accessibility. If we wanted to design the perfect case to prove that we can provide accessible copies to students without making them
buy inaccessible copies, we couldn’t do much better than <i class="">HathiTrust.
</i><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">In that case, the court considered whether the University of Michigan could provide accessible copies of books from the HathiTrust collection to students with print disabilities without any payment or permission
from the copyright holders. The court said, </span>categorically, yes. The recently-passed Marrakesh Treaty implementation bill made a few modifications to Section 121, and all of them were designed to expand accessibility. None of them added a purchase requirement,
which did not exist prior to Marrakesh. So we have a recent case that is perfectly on point, and recent legislation that is also on our side. </div>
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<div class="">Anyway, that’s a short version of the much more detailed arguments in the white paper. I promise it’s not a tough read, and will reward your time and attention.</div>
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<div class="">On Jan 17, 2020, at 10:01 AM, Susan Kelmer <<a href="mailto:Susan.Kelmer@colorado.edu" class="">Susan.Kelmer@colorado.edu</a>> wrote:</div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">The student deserves to have the right version of the textbook, period. If everyone else in the class, and the instructor, are using the 7<sup class="">th</sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>edition
then why are you telling your student with a disability that they can only have the 6<sup class="">th</sup>? That is RIPE for a lawsuit filed by the student against your institution.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Get the edition the student needs, remediate as necessary. That is our job, and we need to be doing our job. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Ignore the people who have responded that your student doesn’t have to show proof of ownership (note I did not say proof of purchase). That white paper that
is being tossed around covers LIBRARIES but does not cover DSOs producing alternate format directly. This is still a very grey area, and it is better to err on the side of caution until further clarification from the courts or the federal government. A white
paper is not law, it is simply an opinion piece. I ask for proof of ownership from the student (aka, show me your book). And I give students the version they are requesting and have obtained. There are some publishers that require proof of purchase before
they provide files, which means I then do ask the student for a receipt, which I heavily redact of any personal/identifying information and provide to the publisher.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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I have a question about how different campuses manage alternate format delivery for textbooks when the required edition is different from a digital version that your office may already have from a previous year or other student. For example, if your office
has a digital version of the sixth edition of a textbook and a student has purchased the seventh edition but needs some remediation to make the book accessible digitally, what do you do? Do you request the seventh edition from the publisher (or Bookshare,
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