Hi John, Well, I could always ask Bookshare about that, but I was under the understanding that anyone can redistribute printed materials in an accessible format provided it is in accordance to the US copyright laws. As I understand it amendment 17 section 121 states that it is legal to redistribute printed materials in an accessible format to any US citizen who is legally blind and provided said materials are in a specialized format such as braille that is not used by the general public. I've read the copyright amendment and it is pretty clear what I can and can't do in regards to US copyrights, but as not everyone here resides in the United States I might get into hot water for breaking some international copyright agreement even though I am in compliance with US copyright law.
Anyway, as for the Daisy format I plan to take a few Bookshare books apart and figure out how the Daisy format works. As I said I believe the underlying markup language is xml which is why Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, etc can display its contents. What I'm not sure about is if there is any special tags required by Daisy players, but I'll take a look around and see if there is some documentation on the Daisy format that will explain it to me better before I consider using it. Cheers! On 6/14/12, john <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > --- 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].
