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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Advancing Reading Equality: Discrimination, Copyright and Equality: Law Opening the E-Book for the Print Disabled<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">a seminar with <a href="https://law.uq.edu.au/profile/1110/paul-harpur">
Dr Paul Harpur (UQ)</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">with response from <a href="http://sydney.edu.au/law/about/people/profiles/ron.mccallum.php">
Emeritus Professor Ron McCallum AO (USYD)</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Thurs 24 Nov 2016, 2-3.30pm – rvsp at
<a href="https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/advancing-reading-equality-discrimination-copyright-and-equality-law-opening-the-e-book-for-the-tickets-29233351742">
eventbrite</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="http://sydney.edu.au/law/about/campus.shtml">Law Common Room</a>, level 4, New Law Building, Sydney Law School, University of Sydney<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">About the seminar</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">For most of human history reading equality has been an unrealised and impossible dream for people who are unable to read and handle standard books, including people with blindness, quadriplegia or dyslexia.
Technological advancements have revolutionised what is possible. While books have been born digital for decades, almost exclusively they have been published in standard paper formats. Books are now born digital and are being distributed as E-Books, via E-Libraries
and read on E-Readers. There is now no reason that people with print disabilities cannot enjoy full access. People with print disabilities can use adaptive technologies to read digital content, unless that content is published in ways that blocks the use
of adaptive technologies. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">This presentation speaks to a monograph that contributes to disability rights scholarship and legal advocacy. It builds on international and domestic notions of digital equality and rights to access information.
The core thesis of this monograph is that technology now creates the possibility that everyone in the world, regardless of their abilities or disabilities, should be able to access the written word. Why then is there still a book famine where 5% to 7% of
the world’s books are available to people with print disabilities in wealthy, advanced economies, and less than 1% in the majority of countries<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">About the speaker:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Dr Paul Harpur BBus (HRM), LLB (Hons), LLM, PhD is an internationally recognised disability rights scholar, lawyer and advocate. He was admitted as a lawyer in 2004 and completed his PhD in 2009. Dr Harpur
has tenure at the TC Beirne School of Law at the University of Queensland where he is a highly acclaimed educator and successful researcher. He has received research funding from domestic and international sources and has one monograph with Cambridge University
Press in press (2017), published over 40 academic articles, and consulted for various government and industry bodies, including the International Labour Organization. In addition to being a full-time senior lecturer and part-time special advisor on employment
laws, Dr Harpur is a former Paralympian, silver medallist in the 2003 International Blind Sports Association World Titles and at one point was the fastest blind man in the world in athletics over the 100m.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">About the respondent:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Ronald C McCallum AO was the foundation Blake Dawson Waldron Professor in Industrial Law in the Faculty of Law of the University of Sydney. Ron is the first totally blind person to have been appointed to a
full professorship in any field at any university in Australia or New Zealand. In January 2011, he was appointed to an Emeritus Professorship in the Faculty of Law of the University of Sydney.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">On 3 September 2008, the Australian Government nominated Professor McCallum as its candidate for election to the inaugural United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Professor McCallum
was elected as one of twelve persons who served on the inaugural Committee of Experts. At its inaugural meeting in February 2009, Professor McCallum was made General Rapporteur for the Committee. At its second meeting in October 2009, Professor McCallum was
unanimously elected as 2010 Chair of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Professor McCallum is now a Vice-Chairperson of the CRPD Committee.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Further details:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">This event is co-organized by Prof Gerard Goggin (Dept of Media & Communications) & A/Prof Kimberlee Weatherall (Sydney Law School).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The Law Common Room is on level 4 of the New Law Building, across the bridge in the Wedge. Venue location details at:
<a href="http://sydney.edu.au/law/about/campus.shtml">http://sydney.edu.au/law/about/campus.shtml</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The event will be captioned. Accessible parking is underneath the building - in the New Law car park. For other accessibility requirements or queries, contact Gerard Goggin - gerard.goggin@sydney.edu.au<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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