If you've ever downloaded and studied a bookshare daisy book,
you'll notice that some of them are essentially html files. By
this I mean that you can read the book in internet explorer. As
far as bookshare goes, you can also get a brf file version, which
is braille only. I'm not sure how legal distributing them would
be in any circumstance though, as I believe bookshare has their
own deal that they make with the publishers (or something like
that) which allows them to distribute the books. This isn't
really answering your question, but might clarify a bit of what
your asking.
----- Original Message -----
From: Thomas Ward <[email protected]
To: Gamers Discussion list <[email protected]
Date sent: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 15:25:04 -0400
Subject: [Audyssey] Redistributing RPG Source Books
Hi all,
I was wondering if anyone knows where we stand legally on
redistributing roll playing game source books in accessible
format.
The reason I ask is because I have a number of source books for
the
Star Wars roll playing game I'm in the process of converting to
text
or html. Once I'm done scanning and editing the source books I'd
like
to redistribute them to other blind gamers, but am not clear
where I
stand legally. I could submit them to Bookshare.org to have them
converted to Daisy format, which would be one way of legally
redistributing them, but most of the gamers here live outside the
US
so don't qualify for Bookshare. Therefore while submitting the
scanned
copies to Bookshare would be the legal thing to do it defeats the
purpose of trying to redistribute them to other blind gamers here
who
might wish to join me in getting a weekly Star Wars roll playing
game
going similar to what Phil and others do with Dungeons and
Dragons.
So what i've been thinking of doing is zipping them and hosting
them
on the USA Games website, but I believe in order to legally
distribute
them they have to be in some specific accessibility format like
Dasy
and can't be in an all purpose format like text or html which I
feel
is more accessible than Daisy. Can anyone shed any light on this?
Thanks.
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