As far as I can tell, there are two different kinds of books. One
of them has the text of the book in a standard html layout, and
the other uses a .smil extension for the actual book.
----- Original Message -----
From: Thomas Ward <[email protected]
To: Gamers Discussion list <[email protected]
Date sent: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 20:12:51 -0400
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Redistributing RPG Source Books
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.
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