[access-uk] Re: HARRY POTTER AND ACCESS TO BOOKS
- From: "Andy Collins" <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 14:49:58 +0100
Yusuf and all -
It makes sense that one should be able to make a copy for one's own use,
rather like the old days of home taping! I just thought I'd read at the
front of some books, that no unauthorised copying was permitted including
digital copies that could be held in retrievable storage, or some wording to
that effect.
- Andy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Yusuf" <yusufaosman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 2:42 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: HARRY POTTER AND ACCESS TO BOOKS
| Hi andy, Thats not correct. If you have purchased a copy of a book or you
| have the book on loan from a public library you are entitled to make a
copy
| of the book for your own use in an accessible format of your choice.
|
| If the book is borrowed from a library, I think you have to remove your
| accesible copy once the book has been returned.
|
| However if the book is your book, so long as you don't make the accessible
| copy available to others you are perfectly entitled to make an accessible
| version for your own use.
| Yusuf
|
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: "Andy Collins" <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 12:39 PM
| Subject: [access-uk] Re: HARRY POTTER AND ACCESS TO BOOKS
|
|
| HARRY POTTER AND ACCESS TO BOOKSIan, can I just clarify this point about
| legality? I thought in the usual blurb about no unauthorised copying etc
| also included taking a digital image, even if it was for one's own use
only;
| a bit harsh this of course for those who want to buy and scan the book!
|
| - Andy
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: Ian Macrae
| To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
| Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 1:30 PM
| Subject: [access-uk] Re: HARRY POTTER AND ACCESS TO BOOKS
|
|
| Not sure I follow that logic James. Surely if a blind person with a
| scanner can go into ASDA, buy the book for a fiver and spend the couple of
| hours or so scanning it, they've been able to take advantage of an offer
| which is open to everyone else and end up with a legally owned copy of the
| book. Meanwhile the person without access to that option is paying
through
| the nose with no choice a bout doing so. Added to this is the recent
| argument there's been over the publishers cover price for the book which
is
| regarded by many people as too high for anyone. And don't forget, hours
| after the book has been published, there'll be people who have the
| wherewithal to go and grab it as an illegal scan from the internet for
free.
| Which all goes to show just what a bugger's muddle the whole thing is.
|
|
|
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
| Of James O'Dell
| Sent: 20 July 2007 12:46
| To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
| Subject: [access-uk] Re: HARRY POTTER AND ACCESS TO BOOKS
|
|
| There is also a political point here. It is true that RNIB can't
| afford to sell the books as a "loss leader", but I think perhaps the
bigger
| issue is that they want publishers to come on board with the "same book,
| same time, same price" philosophy, perhaps in time allowing them to take
| their fair share of the revenue as well. RNIB selling the book at a
| discount would simply reinforce the mistaken view that blind people want
| something for nothing, or at any rate for less than "average" people would
| pay. Any discounts offered by outlets are not under the control of the
| publishers, and I think RNIB are wise to do things "by the book", if
you'll
| excuse the pun. There is no point in having equal access to the discounts
| if this ultimately ends up providing publishers with an excuse not to give
| us equal access to the material.
|
| James
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