““To go every three years is burdensome,” says Mark Richert, executive director at the Association for Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired.”
Blind readers have begged the Library of Congress for the same DMCA exemption every three years since 2002. They win every time. Then the clock resets and they start the paperwork over. Publishers once fought Amazon for letting the Kindle read books aloud. The law makes the disabled re-prove a right the publishers never had to earn.