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Brown, Abbe; Waelde, Charlotte --- "IP, disability, culture and exceptionalism: Does copyright law deal with difference?" [2015] ELECD 446; in Dinwoodie, B. Graeme (ed), "Intellectual Property and General Legal Principles" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015) 215

Book Title: Intellectual Property and General Legal Principles

Editor(s): Dinwoodie, B. Graeme

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781784714949

Section: Chapter 11

Section Title: IP, disability, culture and exceptionalism: Does copyright law deal with difference?

Author(s): Brown, Abbe; Waelde, Charlotte

Number of pages: 32

Abstract/Description:

This chapter explores the extent to which human rights laws relating to disability and copyright conflict or complement each other. Does copyright consider itself lex specialis? If one sees the human rights and disability treaties as governing only general obligations, and copyright the specific, does copyright override what human rights and disability would otherwise dictate? Focusing on two case studies which involve human rights from different perspectives – one considers creation (the disabled dancer and her dance), and one considers use (people with visual impairments and access to books) – this chapter will look to developments in policy, international instruments, European and some domestic (UK) law to explore the relationship between these areas of law. Both creators and users of copyright works have an interest in the human rights and disability instruments and activism, and the agenda which results. Consider a choreographer and dancer with disability, who is recognised as a leader in the field of dance, or blind or partially sighted person wishing to access and enjoy the latest books in the bestseller list.


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