[Dtb-talk] DTB Here and There

[Andrews, David B B (DEED)]

Further, NLS's parent agency is the same as that for the U.S. Copyright office, so their interpretation of copyright law has to be pretty conservative.

Dave



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From: dtb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:dtb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Mike Freeman
Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 5:20 PM
To: Discussion of Digital Talking Books
Subject: Re: [Dtb-talk] DTB Here and There

The problem is that American publishers wouldn't have gone for the NLS 
Digital Talking Book project unless there was an encryption key. It has more 
to do with political realities than with absolute logic.

Mike Freeman

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From: "Grover Zinn" <grover.zinn at oberlin.edu>
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Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 2:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Dtb-talk] DTB Here and There


> 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.