Hi. Very well put. Putting it that way makes more sense. I guess my
reasoning is the same as when volunteers remind others about removing split
words in books, telling them how to scan, etc. I was trying to be helpful
to all while addressing a concern I had. I think I have a better
understanding of copyright law than most on this list and I didn't want
people to fall into a trap of posting all sorts of quotes which shouldn't
be posted. I know of at least a few cases where various lawyers do use
search engines and find the various books etc which they feel should not
belong. They threaten to close down sites who have violated such copyright
law. The difference is that those sites post the entire books, but the
books are public domain in the countries that they are posted in. It is a
similar thing here. There are lots of quotes from lots of other sources
which are not part of the original book. They show up on the search
engines and that's bad. As I said from the beginning, I'm happy to back
off if I'm wrong. Since I have been corrected, I'll let it drop.
The policy I am referring to is the validation instructions I received off
list when I decided to volunteer. They were posted on the list also
shortly after, but that was over a year ago. It might be a good idea to
post the current instructions since things like page breaks were not dealt
with at the time.
At 01:33 AM 6/1/2005 -0500, you wrote:
I guess what I was trying to say is, why is a volunteer reminding other
volunteers what to do when it's with respect to something that staff must
know about. I mean, if BookShare admins don't know that material is quoted
from the book.....
Therefore if it was of concern, BookShare admins would have already
addressed it on the list. So, if you think they are overlooking something,
wouldn't it be best to write them directly?
I know Gustavo occasionally comments on the list, but it is not clear
that he reads every message. I know I attempt to, but I also know that
things that are sent directly to me are read first.
Tony Baechler Maintainer, goldenaudio.net (TM) online archives http://goldenaudio.net/
