I had attended the AI get together at Banglore where we had a presentation by someone from Inclusive planet, and when asked about the copyright issue, they had replied stating that they would go ahead with it ,and if someone sues, a big noise would be made taking it to the notice of the government in this way. They went on to add that there would be some buzz around when 100 or thousand blind persons are sued which would gather the attention of the country.
Being an Access India member, I thought it is my responsibility to share the information about their attitude, especially when the matter is a sensitive one. One last thing which I don't know, are libraries like NAB and others authorised to convert books into accessible formats and distribute them? If that is not illegal, I don't understand why this would become illegal. There are so many web sites like www.esnips.com and www.4share.com which are already providing these kinds of services. Why aren't they sued so far? Personally, I don't mind to be sued along with thousand other blind persons in a copyright issue. In fact, I would take it as an opportunity to take it to the notice of all as to why I had to do so and what were the facilities,or rather lack offacilities, which prompted me to do so. Having said this, I must accept that I don't have any idea about the punishments in such a case -- G. Vamshi PH Res : +91 877-2243861 Mobile: +91 9949349497 E-mail ID: [email protected] Skype: gvamshi81 God helps those who help themselves On 9/2/09, chandru shekar <[email protected]> wrote: > according to my opinion, there is no problem, because this library is > useful for vi person and also this is not a business purpose anyhow > free of cost. like audio cd and cassettes library. > with best regards > m.chandru > > On 9/1/09, Subramani L <[email protected]> wrote: >> This is something even I have been thinking about. I am short of storage >> space and have been considering transferring a few things on the site, >> but it seems there is a strong possibility that people may be caught for >> copyright violation and that is a great bother. >> >> Subramani >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Pranav Lal >> Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 6:00 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [AI] Bookbole announcement! >> >> Nirmita, >> >> What are the legal consequences of uploading books in this way? What >> defense >> do we have if we are caught by the police or are sued by the publishing >> industry? >> >> Pranav >> >> >> >> >> To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] >> with the subject unsubscribe. >> >> To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, >> please visit the list home page at >> >> http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.i >> n >> >> Email secured by TPML Raksha Checkpoint >> >> >> >> To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] >> with >> the subject unsubscribe. >> >> To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, >> please >> visit the list home page at >> >> http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in >> > > > > To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with > the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please > visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
