Hello All The topic taking rounds in this thread pertains to another entity.
Rightfully, it should be discussed with them and not here. Hence, I am closing this thread and all traffic is now closed. Harish Kotian Moderator ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vamshi. G" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 11:15 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Bookbole announcement! >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 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
