[blindlaw] West Publishing

[James Pepper]

So you are ok with me taking away all of your assets that you have
accumulated in your lifetime from thinking.  So if you are a lawyer,
everything you ever did, all of the cases, all of that effort is free and
you never charged anyone for your work.
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 8:50 PM, E.J. Zufelt <lists at zufelt.ca> wrote:

> Good evening James,
>
> As I am sure you are aware there is a difference between real property,
> chattel, and intellectual property.  So, feel free to "take away" all of my
> intellectual property, I don't want it, only the benefit of its use (which
> all can share simultaneously), Please don't take away my real property or
> chattel, I'm not done with it yet... but you can have it when I am.
>
> More seriously, I was wondering if you, or anyone else, can explain to me
> why they think there is actually a benefit to society as a whole to having
> intellectual content treated as property? I would also be interested in
> hearing why intellectual property should all be in the public domain.
>
> Thanks,
> Thanks,
> Everett Zufelt
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> On 2010-09-01, at 9:42 PM, James Pepper wrote:
>
> > Well if you want to give away other people's property then what stops
> anyone
> > from taking everything you own in the name of fairness.  After all you
> are
> > not using it to the best advantage, I can use it better.
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 8:35 PM, James Pepper <b75205 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> The law for accessibility in documents is Section 508 and you can lay
> out
> >> your content correctly and still not be accessible.  The problem here is
> >> that there is no clear cut solution, whereas with a wheel chair ramp the
> >> solution is obvious, you build it, but with accessibility in electronic
> >> documents all you have to do is prove that the doucment is section 508
> >> compliant and that is that.
> >>
> >> Section 508 is not accessibility.  We all know this right here on this
> >> list.  What is needed is a definition of accessibility that is a real
> >> solution and is not a plessy versus ferguson type of situation where
> people
> >> claim that accessibility is in existence but it doesn't actually work.
> >>
> >> We are in the same boat.  The problem which has not been defined and I
> >> define it here, is that software companies are only concerned with the
> >> solution as it holds for their own software, they seek out section 508
> >> compliance and that is all they can do.  They do not make their content
> >> accessible to a wide range of products because you cannot anticipate all
> of
> >> the scenarios and so we are stuck in this situation where a publisher
> can
> >> lay out their content as accessible in section 508 and yet be completely
> >> inaccessible when it gets to market.
> >>
> >> There are so many variables that it is a miracle that anything is
> >> accessible.
> >>
> >> But if you want it to work every time, you will have to pay for it.  And
> >> don't look now but when a company makes its ramps accessible to the
> disabled
> >> that cost is recouped in the price of their product but you guys want
> them
> >> to give away books for free. Should houses be free for the blind, give
> away
> >> free cars.   I think we should re-evaluate this free book plan because
> there
> >> is no incentive to innovate in accessibility.  Why should anyone fix
> this if
> >> there is no benefit other than a pat on the back to solve this problem?
>  You
> >> want your books for free, so does everyone else.
> >>
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