What is the legal authority for Accessible Book Collection to provide digital text?
Added to the Copyright Law was a new section 121 by the Act of September 16, 1996, Pub. L. 104-197, 110 Stat. 2394, 2416. In brief this new section permits “an authorized entity to reproduce or to distribute copies or phonorecords of a previously published, nondramatic literary work if such copies or phonorecords are reproduced or distributed in specialized formats exclusively for use by blind or other persons with disabilities.” The Accessible Book Collection is such an authorized entity and digital text is one of the specialized formats. Schools may provide these digital texts to only eligible students within the terms of our agreement.
