[bksvol-discuss] Re: email from an author of a book I scanned
- From: "Chela Robles" <cdrobles693@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:29:53 -0700
If I one day were writing a book, I'd be willing and thrilled to know
that Bookshare is a nonprofit organization that doesn't intend to scan
books illegally, because that is why the ISBN and all that publication
stuff is there, to make sure it is not a copyright infringement,
anyway, books are part of accessibility, I wonder if truly she ever
had to read,hours at a time on tape or whatever, or be an assistant to
print disabled people, like the blind, or better yet, the RFB&D, ever
thought of telling her that RFB&D is similar to that of bookshare and
NLS? She must be well, let's just say, having a bad hairday.
On 8/26/08, Chela Robles <cdrobles693@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If only she knew how many people strive their best to obtain a
> suitably formatted book, especially if there are Webber fans with
> print disabilities, She should read the ADA requirements!
>
> On 8/26/08, solsticesinger <solsticesinger@xxxxxxxxx> 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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