[bksvol-discuss] Re: Copyrights and synopses
- From: "Jake Brownell" <jabrown@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 23:47:30 -0500
Hi Tony,
As yu will note, I said previously, these books and their accompanying
documentation, copyright, synopsis, etc. are reviewed by BookShare
Administration before going live on to the site where search engines can get
at it. I'm sure Gustavo and whoever else has a hand in approving books is
well aware that we as volunteers/submitters regularly include dust jackets
in their entirety.
I would suggest that if you are this concerned about fair use that you
write to Gustavo and ask his opinion as a staff member. All bringing this up
on the list does is get a lot of opinions, wrong information circulated,
and one volunteer telling another what to do when that volunteer admits to
lacking knowledge of BookShare policy. This is something that a BookShare
staff member needs to address not you or any other volunteer who thinks they
know the law best.
I know that probably sounds harsh, but it seems that this is something
that should go directly to admins as we as volunteers cannot dictate the
habbits of others.
The policy discussed in the past dealt with synopsis from places like
Amazon.com. These obviously are synopsis NOT on the book therefore, we
should not copy them directly. Paraphrasing is of course permitted.
Perhaps I'm right and perhaps you are, I simply and going with that all my
submissions have been accepted.
Jake
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Baechler" <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 30, 2005 11:15 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Copyrights and synopses
> Hi. I am aware of this and wasn't trying to pick on you. I fully
> understand where you are coming from and in principle it's fine. However,
> fair use has its limits and even though the publisher quotes the page from
> the book on the jacket, I don't think that you quoting it on a public site
> would still qualify as fair use. Remember that anyone including search
> engines can see the long synopsis. If it was only restricted to members,
I
> wouldn't have said anything about it, but try looking for books that you
> know are on bookshare.org with something like google and they will show
the
> synopses. I know this from experience.
>
> Again, quoting the actual text of the jacket is fine and not a
> problem. It's just quoting reviews from other publications or text from
> the inside of the book that causes problems, even if such text appears on
> that book's jacket. Maybe I'm completely wrong here and if so I
apologize,
> but I remember something about not quoting reviews directly from other
> sources being discussed here some time ago.
>
> At 04:16 AM 5/30/2005 -0500, you wrote:
> > When I quote something as being from inside the book, I am actually
> >pulling out text that the publisher pulled out. Often there is a page at
the
> >beginning of a Hardy Boys book, with a dramatic scene pulled out. This is
> >the type of thing that would appear on the dust jacket if the book had
one.
>
> Tony Baechler
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