[Dtb-talk] [macvoiceover] Re: Olearia first public release (version 0.90b)

[Greg Kearney]

They are not he NLS's books they are the property of the people of the  
United States who paid for them to be produced. An interesting  
question is this, why can not the public get copies of out of  
copyright books recorded by the NLS? For example the works of Mark  
Twain are no longer under copyright what is the justification for  
restricting access to the NLS recordings of such works?

In Western Australia wel are developing a library which has both  
restricted content for the disabled and public out of copyright which  
anyone can access. This approach seems to be unique in the world as  
far as we can tell.

Every citizen of a liberal democracy has a right, and to some degree a  
duty, to communicate their concerns to their elected representatives.

Greg Kearney
Curtin University Centre for Accessible Technology
www.cucat.org

On Oct 28, 2008, at 6:08 PM, Randy Stegall wrote:

> Why not, Congress oversees NLS, doesn't it?  Isn't that one of the  
> things we pay them to do through our taxes?
>
> Randy
> On Oct 28, 2008, at 7:00 PM, David Andrews wrote:
>
>> I would urge people not to contact Congress.  They have more  
>> important things to worry about, like saving the country.  And ...  
>> they are NLS's books and they can decide how the books should be  
>> accessed.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>       At 04:09 PM 10/28/2008, you wrote:
>>> An important note: Olearia, and for that matter no other software
>>> based player, can not play NLS books. THis is due to the NLS  
>>> refusing
>>> to approve software players to have access to their encryption.
>>>
>>> We are working with RFB&D to be able to ply their encrypted books  
>>> and
>>> expect a solution to that soon.
>>>
>>> If you are bothered by the NLS restriction on playback of their  
>>> books
>>> I would urge you to contact your representatives in congress.
>>>
>>> Greg Kearney
>>> Curtin University Centre for Accessible Technology
>>> www.cucat.org
>>>
>>> On Oct 28, 2008, at 2:40 PM, Dave Hunt wrote:
>>>
>>>> Which format are the DTBs from the NLS Digital program, and does
>>>> this program play them?  I normally play them on my Icon, but would
>>>> play them on this machine if that were an option.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Dave
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Oct 28, 2008, at 4:20 PM, Randy Stegall wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Thanks Greg.  It plays any of the dtbs I have tried so far.  Keep
>>>>> up the good work.
>>>>>
>>>>> Randy
>>>>> On Oct 28, 2008, at 3:08 PM, Greg Kearney wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Olearia is a DAISY digital talking book player for the Macintosh
>>>>>> computer platform. Olearia will play DAISY version 2.02 and  
>>>>>> DAISY/ NISO 2005 digital talking book. This version 0.90b will  
>>>>>> play audio
>>>>>> only and full text full audio books. The final version of Olearia
>>>>>> will support text only DAISY books as well. Olearia supports
>>>>>> VoiceOver. Olearia requires MacOS X version 10.5 or better.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Olearia is free open source software and  can be downloaded  
>>>>>> from http://www.cucat.org/projects/olearia  Source code can be  
>>>>>> downloaded from: http://code.google.com/p/olearia/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Greg Kearney
>>>>>> Curtin University Centre for Accessible Technology
>>>>>> www.cucat.org
>>>>>>
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