On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 8:02 AM, Nims,Alva John (Al) <[email protected]> wrote:
> I like your comments about ePubs and PDF, with the respect of readers > being available for multiple platforms. > > Now looking at it from IBM's point-of-view and "Copyright" material, are > ePubs a little easier to "Edit" than a PDF? I really do not know that > answer, that is why I am asking. I believe that PDFs can be protected from > being "Edited" and still allow it to be read without having to enter a > password, is there something similar for ePubs? I do not know how much > protection can be done in an ePub and again, I "Think" my statement about > PDFs is correct, but I have been known to be wrong before! :) > I understand your question. But I don't understand why IBM would want to stop someone from "editing" a PDF. Well, I do in a way, to maintain integrity of the information. But so far as copyright is concerned, unless allowed, it is illegal to make a copy of a "book" (PDF document in this case) and re-distribute it. Back in the "dead tree" days, there wasn't anything that stopped a person with a pen or mark-up pen from "editing" a manual. And then they could (physically) make a copy of those pages and distribute them. Of course, the edits were a bit obvious. Hum, does IBM allow you to copy an unmodified PDF which is "generally available" via the web and give it to another person? I know that some web publishers are saying that "deep linking" to an article on their site is a copyright violation. They want users to go to their home page and then click-through to the article for ad revenue. Again, IMO, this "webvertising" was thought up in the lower regions of the place of eternal damnation. I get this a lot on my comics sites. I'd rather pay a distributor to email the comics I like directly to me. Or make a personal comics page specifically for me which requires a "key" of some sort (my bank does this - won't allow access by a computer unless the computer has the "key" installed). > > Al Nims > University of Flordia > > -- "Pessimism is a admirable quality in an engineer. Pessimistic people check their work three times, because they're sure that something won't be right. Optimistic people check once, trust in Solis-de to keep the ship safe, then blow everyone up." "I think you're mistaking the word optimistic for inept." "They've got a similar ring to my ear." >From "Star Nomad" by Lindsay Buroker: Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
