[bksvol-discuss] Re: Follow up from Jim on my email -- and OT: Jim's location
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 17:10:58 -0800 (PST)
Thanks for the clarification, Jim. It doesn't affect
me personally, but I am glad to understand.
OT: The phone number and email you give below is Palo
Alto, but I thought you were based in D.C. or N.Y.
Have you moved, or do you work in the East physically
but work in Palo Alto virtually? Just curious.
Cindy
--- Jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Thank for Gerald for tipping me off to look at the
> list sooner than when
> my daily digest arrives. Let me clarify a few
> things!
>
> One, I don't think that our active volunteers have
> been a problem, and
> it just happens that I'm on this list and not the
> general Bookshare.org
> list. I'll ask one of our team to post it there for
> me and monitor any
> questions.
>
> Second, there are several areas of practice that
> should be addressed:
>
> A. Sending electronic books downloaded from
> Bookshare.org (either
> finished or in process) to third parties. I think
> everyone is pretty
> clear that's a violation of your user agreement and
> a no-no. There is
> flexibility around this when it comes to downloading
> for a student as
> our school members do, or someone who is assisting a
> member get their
> books, or prepare Braille, etc. And, if you use
> Bookshare.org to create
> a Braille book, we're ok with you circulating it to
> other people in
> hardcopy form.
>
> B. Grabbing books from somewhere else (cracked
> ebooks, pirate lists,
> state repositories, etc.) and submitting them to
> Bookshare.org. We
> don't want them, because we don't want books where
> someone broke the law
> or a license to get them to us.
>
> C. Sending books you scan for Bookshare.org to
> someplace illegal. Also
> uncool, and against the volunteer agreement. We
> don't want a publisher
> to discover a Bookshare.org book on some warez site,
> compare it to our
> copy (which we will let them do) and find it is the
> same scanned book.
>
> Why are following these rules important? Well, as a
> volunteer with
> Bookshare.org, you are actually appointed an agent
> of ours, and our
> Section 121 exemption is wrapped around what you do,
> making something
> that is generally illegal (scanning books and giving
> them to lots of
> people) ok as long as we follow the exemption. You
> have special
> liability protections under U.S. law. If an author
> or publisher sues
> Bookshare.org because they think we are violating
> Chafee (or whatever)
> on a specific book, and it turns out that you
> scanned that book, you are
> protected as a bona fide volunteer from liability as
> long as you are
> operating within the scope of your volunteer job
> description.
>
> I could go on and on about this stuff, but it's
> probably not needed. We
> don't want to be heavy-handed, or nannies. We are
> not seeking out
> problems, or trying to split hairs. I'm not worried
> about situations
> that look just fine. I am very worried when our
> books show up on the
> Internet for free. That's a big problem, and one I
> can't be flexible
> about.
>
> My main message to you is: help protect the
> Bookshare.org community. As
> leaders in our community, your opinions matter most.
> If we keep
> Bookshare.org's reputation with the publishing
> industry as a community
> of people who take following copyright law
> seriously, I think we have a
> real shot in the next few years to getting a big
> slice, maybe even a
> majority, of our books in high quality electronic
> form directly from the
> publishers. I think we all share a dream of every
> person with a print
> disability in the world have access to books on
> reasonable terms.
> Upholding our promises so far has been a key part of
> our path to
> realizing that dream.
>
> Jim Fruchterman
> President and CEO
> Benetech
>
> 480 California Avenue, Suite 201
> Palo Alto, California 94306 USA
> +1 650 475-5440 extension 106
> Fax: +1 650 475-1066
>
> jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> www.benetech.org <http://www.benetech.org/>
>
> The Benetech Initiative - Technology Serving
> Humanity
> Benetech is a nonprofit organization
>
>
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