August 2007

Part 1: Introduction
Part 2: Overview of copyright
Part 3: Individuals with a print disability
Part 4: Print disability organisations
Part 5: Educational provisions of the Copyright Act
Part 6: Copyright owners
Part 7: Glossary

These guidelines were written by the Australian Copyright Council as part of a project funded by Copyright Agency Ltd (CAL). We are grateful to those who participated in the project, including representatives of the following organisations:

•    Australian Human Rights & Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC)
•    Australian Publishers Association (APA)
•    Australian Society of Authors (ASA)
•    Blind Citizens Australia
•    Deakin University (Learning Services)
•    Macquarie Customised Accessibility Services (M-CAS)
•    National Information Library Service (NILS) (now part of Vision Australia)
•    Royal Blind Society of NSW
•    Royal Institute for Deaf & Blind Children
•    Royal Society for the Blind.

Using these guidelines

1. Except as otherwise indicated, you may print, download and reproduce these guidelines in any format for access by people with disabilities, and communicate the guidelines in any format, provided that:

• you only print, download, reproduce or communicate the whole of the Guidelines or whole Parts;
• you do not make any changes or additions to, or deletions from, the text of the Guidelines or relevant Parts;
• you do not charge any fee for making or supplying copies of the Guidelines or Parts, including copies in accessible formats; and
• all copies are marked with the words “© Australian Copyright Council 2005–2007. For updated information, go to http://www.copyright.org.au/disability”.

2. You may provide  links to http://www.copyright.org.au/disability, provided it is clear to users that they are being transferred to the website of the Australian Copyright Council.

For all other uses of this material, please contact the Copyright Council.