hey! that would be the perfect law if everyone would put it into all their licenses!
Josh ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2007 2:07 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Forcing accessibility > Hi Dark, > Yes, I think challenging some of the laws, hard to do, is one of the > only ways of making any headway. > I am all for copyrights, but sometimes they tend to stomp out those who > don't have an equal or near equal access to that content. > As far as games go I'd like something put in to the existing copyright > laws that is similar to the written materials. It can only be copyed or > used in an accessible manner or specialised format for blind and > visually impaired or something like that. At the national level it would > go over any company license agreement if the audio content or whatever > was used in a specialised format for the blind, etc... > > > Dark wrote: >> As far as legal issues go, I do believe there is some mileage to campeign >> for changes here, sinse some laws are clearly and simply unfair. >> >> For instance, one charity which reccords audio books here in the Uk has >> to >> borrow books directly from their public library. while their local >> library >> will freely let them exceed the lone period on books, if they get a book >> on >> interlibrary lone from the national British Library they are forced to >> pay >> the standard charge when keeping a book for an extended period, even when >> recording books. this makes it almost impossible for them to produce any >> book not available in their local public library. Sinse they don't have >> the >> cash to pay the extra lone fees it would take. >> >> Imho, this is certainly a case where the law, or at least the national >> British Library policy, is in error and should deffinately be changed. >> >> All the best, >> >> Dark. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] >> To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can >> visit >> http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make >> any subscription changes via the web. >> >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] > To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can > visit > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make > any subscription changes via the web. _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
