[bksvol-discuss] Re: email from an author of a book I scanned

I'm curious, too. It seems odd that she'd check for her name on bookshare out 
of the blue.

Cindy


--- On Tue, 8/26/08, Gary Petraccaro <garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Gary Petraccaro <garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: email from an author of a book I scanned
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Tuesday, August 26, 2008, 2:47 PM
> I'm interested in how she found out the book was even
> being scanned.
> Given the amount of "sharing" that's going
> on, it's no surprise that she 
> would feel the way she does and, for that matter, should
> she even have heard 
> about BookShare.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 2:58 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: email from an author of a
> book I scanned
> 
> 
> > Hi,
> > I would give her the benefit of the doubt. I am a
> musician. I dislike it
> > when people pirate music. Let's see how this turns
> out.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > James D Homme, Usability Engineering, Highmark Inc.,
> > james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx, 412-544-1810
> >
> > "The difference between those who get what they
> wish for and those who
> > don't is action. Therefore, every action you take
> is a complete
> > success,regardless of the results." -- Jerrold
> Mundis
> > Highmark internal only: For usability and
> accessibility:
> > http://highwire.highmark.com/sites/iwov/hwt093/
> >
> >
> >
> >             "Laura Ann"
> >             <agape.wellness.m
> >             assage@xxxxxxxxx>                      
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> Re: email from an
> >                                       author of a book
> I scanned
> >             08/26/2008 02:36
> >             PM
> >
> >
> >             Please respond to
> >             bksvol-discuss@fr
> >                eelists.org
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > that is terrible.
> > How disappointing that she is so ignorant and hostile
> toward blind and
> > disabled being able to read in alternant formats.
> >
> > How nasty.
> > Laura An
> > At 01:01 PM 8/26/2008, you wrote:
> >      Hi, all.
> >
> >      I received this message from Katharine Webber,
> the author of
> >      Triangle, which I recently submitted to the
> collection. She is
> >      apparently displeased that her book is in the
> collection.
> >
> >      I tried to explain that bookshare is not illegal.
> Here is what she
> >      says:
> >
> >      Scanning pages of a book that is copyright and
> >      therefore protected intellectual property, and
> then
> >      ndistributing those pages to other people through
> a
> >      website, is a violation of the copyright law.
> Very
> >      specifically, you are stealing income from me,
> the
> >      author of TRIANGLE and other novels.
> >
> >      What you are doing is theft. Do you mind that?
> Would
> >      you steal a meal in a restaurant, would you steal
> >      services from your plumber?  If you had no idea
> it was
> >      illegal, now you know. Surely you do know this?
> >      BOOKSHARE IS ILLEGAL THEFT OF PROPERTY. Do you
> want to
> >      keep doing it and to wait to be prosecuted?
> >
> >
> >      Who can heal, but one who has healed herself?
> >      Who can know, but one who has asked and sought?
> >      Who can lead, but one who has traveled the way?
> >      --ancient French proverb
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