[Dtb-talk] NLS and copyright

[Kurt Edwin Yount]

It should be noted that without the copyright that NLS used none of these
books that we remember would have been recorded because as the program
was originallly imagined it was only meant for the blind, although it ran
the gambit from 33/1/3 to cassettes.  If you remember those days when it
said solely for the use of the blind it was always like that.  I
understand how people outside the US would not want DRM protection, but I
also understand that it is an extremely valuable resource for those who
for years had little to read except braille.  I still treasure it, even
as I am sad that others outside the US cannot have access.  Remember also
that RNIB in England and I forget the one in Canada, CNIB I think also
had restriction on borrowing previliges and still do.  Kurt