[Dtb-talk] DTB Here and There

[Grover Zinn]

I've been thinking for various reasons about accessibility of etexts  
for text-to-voice and other such things (including the Amazon Kindle  
situation).

I did not know DRM was the "problem" with NLS downloads; I do know  
that the Milestone 312 (a pretty spectacular piece of hardware with  
the addons) will not play NLS (and they designed it this way, given  
that they are European).  I would think that the "lockout" via  
registration for BARD should let the NLS "control" the distribution of  
texts in Daisy format.  With the 4track tapes, there was a bit of a  
limitation that you have to have a 4track player, but there is no way  
to lock the tapes (as far as I know).

The "management" of etexts to prevent text to voice (see the Barnes  
and Noble ebook web site) is interesting; is this just publisher  
control, or is the "copyright law" on their side/ (I've done copyright  
law for a collegiate setting, and it is complicated and in some cases  
yet to be tested in court).

A bit of a ramble.  But this is a very interesting and crucial  
question.  Other than protecting the talking book market, what is the  
problem???  (Profits are important to companies   :-)   )

best

Grover Zinn

Grover Zinn
William H. Danforth Professor of Religion, emeritus
former Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
Oberlin College
Oberlin, OH 44074
grover.zinn at oberlin.edu



On Dec 12, 2009, at 5:08 PM, Steve Matzura wrote:

> On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 13:34:56 -0500, you wrote:
>
>> What you may have noticed or
>> been told is NLS possibly giving RNIB access to the original DAISY  
>> without
>> the DRM.
>
> It was CNIB, but that's neither here nor there. So OK, who puts the
> DRM on these things, and why do we need to wait until that's done
> while other countries get it without?  This sounds remarkably like
> buying drugs from other countries which were made in the U.S. but not
> distributable in the U.S.
>
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