So, about making wiki page etc. I have been looking around the "public domain" rules, and am seeing that all CC licensed materials can't be read for the LibriVox project. Reason being that they [LibriVox] allow for commercial uses of their materials. I find this to be particularly frustrating, because there are a lot of awesome! materials that can't be published in audio form by this group.
So question: Any alternatives? Is it necessary to make an alternative if none are found? What are your thoughts on this? Also, I feel like an idiot for not catching this earlier. On 26/02/2011, C. Alaric Moore <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear wondrous members o' yea olde Free Culture, > > So I was clicking around in the Libre project's list o' > things<http://libreprojects.net/>, > and found the Gutenberg E-book <http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page> (I > call them Fre-ebooks and suggest you do too) project is also in association > with LibriVox <http://librivox.org/about-librivox/>. Librivox, as the link > says, attempts to make written material available in Audio format under a > Creative Commons un-license (more fun terminology, I've been reading too > much Orwell). > > From what I understand these two organizations have an iPhone app that I > was > introduced to (it's called Gutenberg), and blatantly the voices are pretty > terrible; four books were read by a child (as sweet as it sounds it really > detracts from the story when the reader asks how to say a word) and a > number > of them by this (albeit awesome) very Texan sounding man. > > The reason I am telling you all about this may already be obvious, we > should > all totally volunteer to read some > books<http://librivox.org/volunteer-for-librivox/>, > or tell our friends that are good at doing different voices and reading out > loud that they could do this. ("Hey [awesome friend], have you heard of > this? Well you should, because you could rock this and be an even > awesomer person because of it!") > > Well, that's all I have to say really. I hope you all have good > days/nights/weekends. I'm off to read some books out loud. > -- > *Respectfully, * > * > * > *Clarissa Alaric Moore* > *Chemistry and Biochemistry* > *University of Oklahoma* > -- *Sincerely, Clarissa Alaric Moore* ***405-343-4352 * * * *** * _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss
