Please take the following points as something simply coming from a lay
person.
It is important to pose the fundamental question: How many publishers offer
or even sell their books in accessible format for the visually challenged
customers? Very few worldwide and virtually mill in India. Given that one
can use this as a tool to handle any possible copyright issue arising as the
result of making copyrighted materials available online. Also remember that
libraries are suppose to lend books for their patrons anyway and do they
lend those books in accessible format? Recently amendments have been
introduced in US copyright laws and I have been told that it bears
accessibility in mind. So such amendments need to be studied and based on
that the Indian legal system should be pressed for further reforms in this
matter. But in my view, libraries are entitled to make materials in
accessible format available online even within the existing laws provided
that they restrict accessibility to the visually challenged persons by
assigning user ID for each member. They could also include notices such as:
materials found here are for personal usage only and not to be distributed
or sold to others. Perhaps someone else can comment on this from the legal
perspective.
Regards,
Vetri.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Vamshi. G" <gvamsh...@gmail.com>
To: <accessindia@accessindia.org.in>
Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 1:45 PM
Subject: Re: [AI] Bookbole announcement!
I had attended the AI get together at Banglore where we had a
presentation by someone from Inclusive planet, and when asked about
the copyright issue, they had replied stating that they would go ahead
with it ,and if someone sues, a big noise would be made taking it to
the notice of the government in this way. They went on to add that
there would be some buzz around when 100 or thousand blind persons are
sued which would gather the attention of the country.
Being an Access India member, I thought it is my responsibility to
share the information about their attitude, especially when the matter
is a sensitive one.
One last thing which I don't know, are libraries like NAB and others
authorised to convert books into accessible formats and distribute
them?
If that is not illegal, I don't understand why this would become illegal.
There are so many web sites like
www.esnips.com
and
www.4share.com
which are already providing these kinds of services.
Why aren't they sued so far?
Personally, I don't mind to be sued along with thousand other blind
persons in a copyright issue. In fact, I would take it as an
opportunity to take it to the notice of all as to why I had to do so
and what were the facilities,or rather lack offacilities, which
prompted me to do so. Having said this, I must accept that I don't
have any idea about the punishments in such a case
--
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On 9/2/09, chandru shekar <chandru...@gmail.com> wrote:
according to my opinion, there is no problem, because this library is
useful for vi person and also this is not a business purpose anyhow
free of cost. like audio cd and cassettes library.
with best regards
m.chandru
On 9/1/09, Subramani L <lsubram...@deccanherald.co.in> wrote:
This is something even I have been thinking about. I am short of storage
space and have been considering transferring a few things on the site,
but it seems there is a strong possibility that people may be caught for
copyright violation and that is a great bother.
Subramani
-----Original Message-----
From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in
[mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Pranav Lal
Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 6:00 AM
To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in
Subject: Re: [AI] Bookbole announcement!
Nirmita,
What are the legal consequences of uploading books in this way? What
defense
do we have if we are caught by the police or are sued by the publishing
industry?
Pranav
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