Biography
Daniel Goldstein, co-founder of the Baltimore, Maryland firm, Brown, Goldstein & Levy, was a trial lawyer whose clients included the National Federation of the Blind and individual blind persons from 1986 to the end of 2017 when he retired. Beginning in 1999, he focused his work on their behalf on nonvisual access to digital information and technology, including ebooks, voting machines, private and governmental websites, ATMs, kiosks and the like, starting with a lawsuit against AOL in 2000. His only present formal tie with disability rights is as a member of the Board of Directors of the Disability Rights Center of New Hampshire. Since retiring, however, he has been compiling information from disability rights consumer organizations as to what they would require to be fully included as customers, employees and applicants by corporate entities, in a verifiable binary format. His one encounter with copyright and fair use was on behalf of the NFB and individual blind scholars as defendants-intervenors in Author’s Guild v. HathiTrust.
