Hi Dark, Such is the joys of international copyright law, and that's precisely why I don't want to go through Bookshare. Sure its legal and I might do it for no other reason than to let Bookshare subscribers have access to the books, but international copyrights being what they are just because its legal to download a source book book in accessible format in the USA it may not be legal to do so in the UK. That's dumb.
Why should the CNIB, RNIB, or anyone else for that matter have to reinvent the wheel so to speak. If it is available from Bookshare, the NLS, Learning Alley, whatever why not simply make a copy of it and export it to foreign agencies? No, we can't do that because of copyright law x, y, and z. They have to get the copyrights and make their own recording or electronic copies. That too me is beyond stupidity, and the reason we as blind people always end up getting the screws. I can't condone putting the work into scanning, editing, and making these books accessible to have copyright laws say I can't export it to foreign countries because so and so hasn't purchased the copyrights and they must make their own accessible copies when there is already an accessible copy I just busted my rear off to give them. Cheers! On 6/14/12, dark <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi al. > > Bookshare has the same problem as the library of congress, namely that it is > > not accessible to those living outside the Us, I remember having to beg, > grovel, and finally ring Washington Dc from england to persuade the library > > of congress to send me books by specific authors that wren't available over > > here, ---- a long and corporate process which was in no way fun, especially > > sinse for some odd reason only a limited amount of stuff could be sent > overseas. I've mentioned how bad the accesible literature bit in the Uk is > on list before so won't go on about it more, but suffice it to say that > these days my respect for the laws of copywrite as they apply to literature > > are pretty much zero, and will continue to be so until it's possible for a > visually impared person to obtain unabridged books at the same availability > > and price as a sighted person pays. > > In fact, when I've got down to creative writing and if I ever publish a work > > myself, one of the specifications! will be that the book must ave accessible > > copies produced for visually impared users at no extra charge. > > Beware the Grue! > > Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
