So you can burn anything for personal use just don't distribute it? Do
I have that right?
Greg Kearney
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Casper, Wyoming 82601
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On Oct 15, 2007, at 4:09 PM, David Niemeijer wrote:
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.
