Hi Tom.
It's a pain, especially sinse in this country there is no government impetus
or funding for access, so it's left to the Rnib who control with an iron
fist and wouldn't ever! make accessible versions of rp books because (as
they told me), "most blind people wouldn't like that"
Though officially sinse 2005 an agency could make an accessible copy in this
country without publishers' permission, none has actually done so, so
accessible copies are left up to the good will of publishing agencies who
don't generally have much.
Beware the Grue!
Dark.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Ward" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 11:12 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Redistributing RPG Source Books
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.
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