[bksvol-discuss] Re: Public domain
- From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 22:57:47 -0600
It seems thhat I remember seeing a link to Guttenberg sommewhere on
Bookshare as a resource... And of course they woulld want copyrighted books
for membership subscriptions. After all, it does cost money.
Sue S.
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From: "Tony Baechler" <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 10:04 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Public domain
Hi. Can you elaborate on this? I have documented evidence that PG is
happy to share their content with bookshare.org. You would have to search
the newsletter archive, but google might have it as well. Look for
bookshare at site:gutenberg.org and site:gutenberg.net and you should find
the reference. Both PG and bookshare tied for a prize either last year or
the year before and PG was honored to help out bookshare. Also, since the
PG books are in the public domain, bookshare can do whatever they want with
them. Therefore, I think the snag is with bookshare itself, not PG. Why
they are not interested is beyond me except maybe if they are trying to
promote actual scans of copyrighted works as opposed to public domain books
that everyone has the right to access. This is something for the engineers
to figure out, methinks.
At 09:09 AM 3/11/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>I agree on this, but don't know what is the hold up. My understanding it
is
>between PG and bookshare is where the snag lies.
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