Greg,
On Oct 15, 2007, at 11:52 PM, Greg Kearney wrote:
A clarification if you will. What about recording of books not
written by yourself but not intended for commercial distribution
such as for libraries for the blind? Also what about the recording
of books that are in the public domain such as those from Project
Gutenberg or from Creative Commons.
Finally what is the policy of taking books from a sources like
bookshare.org and turning them into DAISY so that a user can play
them on a CD based DAISY playback device such as the VictorReader
Classic.
I believe you have discussed these issues in the past with Acapela
Group directly so you may actually have a better answer than I have.
With that disclaimer let me give it a shot. All of the above is ok if
the user of the Infovox iVox voices does this for their own use. If I
download a book from Gutenberg and convert it to audio and then burn
it on a CD to listen to it in the car that is fine. It is personal
use. But if I then distribute the audio file it is not ok, because it
is at once not personal content and not personal use. As I mentioned
in my previous email, Acapela Group has special licenses for
distributing non-personal content. It is in fact part of their core
business. Their voices in such a case essentially provide a virtual
speaker. For this kind of use you should really talk with them and
not with me. I do not set their policies nor know the details.
david.
