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Re: [gutvol-d] Reply comments on US issues raised by "orphan works"
by Gutenberg9443＠aol.com 21 May '05

21 May '05

In a message dated 5/20/2005 7:17:10 PM Mountain Daylight Time, cannona(a)fireantproductions.com writes: It would have been interesting to see his reasons for saying that PG is not a library, unfortunately, either he provided none, or they were not included in the article. I missed the whole post. However, legally PG is both a library and a publisher. Anne Do you like to breathe? Then save the trees! Begin a personal relationship with an ebook TODAY!

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Re: [gutvol-d] Dear Jon and Bowerbird
by Jonathan Ingram 21 May '05

21 May '05

--- Joshua Hutchinson <joshua(a)hutchinson.net> wrote: > ... snip ... > > I agree wholeheartedly with David. The topics under discussion have almost > never been the problem. It is the person(s) involved in the discussions that > has been the problem. Remove the problem, not the discussions. > > And we do need to have a wide range of topics. For instance, I'm working on > TEI, which I think is of vital importance to the future of PG (some may > disagree). Discussions of TEI lead naturally into discussions of Unicode, > graphic image formats, CSS, and other markup formats. There are quite a few of us who would find it interesting to talk about these topics on gutvol-d if we knew that it wouldn't descend into pointless mudslinging within a day. I personally know of at least five DP volunteers who no longer follow gutvol-d because of the tone of recent posts. -- Jon Ingram __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/learn/mail

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Reply comments on US issues raised by "orphan works"
by Branko Collin 20 May '05

20 May '05

>From what I understand, no PG volunteer (not counting John Mark Ockerbloom) has posted a comment to the US Copyright Office's RFC about "orphan works". So now US copyright policy will be guided by comments such as Kristie Hubler's: "If people have access to my work without paying for it, and using it just to make a buck, it would be as if I were being raped, or having a child I bore ripped out of my arms, never to be seen again." It may very well be possible that PG volunteers have no opinion about orphan works. In that case, consider this e-mail message not sent. If you are concerned about orphan works, now is your last chance to be heard. You can send reply comments to the US Copyright Office until May 5, 2005. The rules are explained here: <http://www.copyright.gov/orphan/comments/> Initially some 700 comments were submitted. It's hard to read through all of them, so I suggest Googling for abstracts, looking for the usual suspects et cetera. There's an unused Wiki running at <http://www.gutenberg.org/cgi-bin/wiki-newsletter.cgi>. I suggest you use that for sharing notes. Do not wait for an official PG position statement. Official statements are hard to draft, because they require consensus. Also, official statements tend to sound impersonal, exactly because they represent a consensus position. There is nothing wrong with sounding like you actually care (although I would leave the Hubler-style hysterics at home). -- branko collin collin(a)xs4all.nl

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Listening to EBooks in Text Format !!!
by rvijay07 20 May '05

20 May '05

Here is a personal response that I got for this topic. I am sharing the entire message here for general info./discussion as it has good points/experience. However, not revealing the volunteer info. Thanks in advance for understanding. Vijay Yes, it works pretty well. Intonation is odd at times, especially for names, but that's inherent in using a machine to do the reading: it's a really hard problem to duplicate all the rules of thumb a human use in deciding pronunciation. I've fed it plaintext gutenberg files and it works fine. A word of advice: edit out the PG licence and other stuff from the beginning of the file, or it'll take forever reading every punctuation mark and url out: "haitch tee tee pee colon slash slash doubleyew doubleyew doubleyew period pee gee ell aye eff period owe are gee slash" etc. The default reading spead is a litttle slow for my taste, but the timing can be tweaked in various ways, if I read the manual correctly. Another option might be to output to an audio file and run software to reduce the duration of the silences between words. There's speech compression software that does this, apparently, though I don't know a source for it. _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com

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Re: [gutvol-d] Digital Library of India
by rvijay07 20 May '05

20 May '05

Dear Dr. Raj Reddy: Thank you very much for your efforts towards the Digital Library of India. Kindly clarify/advice on the copyright status of the DLI project/books for Volunteers of the Gutenberg Project www.gutenberg.org (This E-Mail is also being forwarded to the PG volunteers list at http://lists.pglaf.org/listinfo.cgi/gutvol-d which you are invited to join) Thank You in advance for your time, understanding and consideration. Sincerely Yours, Vijay --- On Fri 05/20, < Gutenberg9443(a)aol.com > wrote: From: [mailto: Gutenberg9443(a)aol.com] To: hyphen(a)hyphenologist.co.uk, rvijay07(a)myway.com, gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 17:35:05 EDT Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] Digital Library of India >> I looked, and a lot of these are in English. My question would be about copyright. How can we find out whether it's clear? Anne _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com

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Re: [gutvol-d] newsletter editors
by Gutenberg9443＠aol.com 20 May '05

20 May '05

In a message dated 5/16/2005 3:03:53 PM Mountain Daylight Time, gbnewby(a)pglaf.org writes: Qualifications include: - excellent attention to detail - proficient in written English - able to interact well via email (periodic phone calls as needed) - available during the deadline "crunch" times - proficient in "plain text" formating - interest in literary works - able to accept input & suggestions from many constituents My estimate is this would start at 6-10 hours per week. The time commitment could shrink (due to better efficiency and some automation) or grow (due to greater involvement in PG activities, and further outreach). It's feasible for there to be a team doing this, or a "main" editor plus some backup editors. This also I could do as part of my job but can't afford to do as volunteer. If we can get a volunteer that's better. Anne Do you like to breathe? Then save the trees! Begin a personal relationship with an ebook TODAY!

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Re: [gutvol-d] re: you guys crack me up
by Gutenberg9443＠aol.com 20 May '05

20 May '05

In a message dated 5/16/2005 12:42:08 AM Mountain Daylight Time, Bowerbird(a)aol.com writes: it is more difficult to be invisible than to be found, so _try_ to relegate my free speech to your "protest zone". I would recognize your writing style as easily as I do Mark Twain's, and a lot less happily. Anne Do you like to breathe? Then save the trees! Begin a personal relationship with an ebook TODAY!

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Re: [gutvol-d] Dear Jon and Bowerbird
by Gutenberg9443＠aol.com 20 May '05

20 May '05

In a message dated 5/15/2005 3:39:45 PM Mountain Daylight Time, gbnewby(a)pglaf.org writes: If we take this direction, next step is to basic form moderation guidelines and find at least two volunteer moderators (not me), who will provide rapid turnaroud time. Greg, I'll do this as part of my job, if you like, but I don't have time to do it as volunteer work. Just tell me what to do. Obviously I have a pretty good idea whom to do it to. I'd want to set up a different screen name to do it under, though, having gotten into a few flame wars myself under my own screen name. Anne Do you like to breathe? Then save the trees! Begin a personal relationship with an ebook TODAY!

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Re: [gutvol-d] re: eye strain
by Gutenberg9443＠aol.com 20 May '05

20 May '05

In a message dated 5/14/2005 2:24:05 PM Mountain Daylight Time, Bowerbird(a)aol.com writes: don't worry about it. it's one of those old-people things... ;+) Does it ever cross your mind that some of us ARE old people? Anne Do you like to breathe? Then save the trees! Begin a personal relationship with an ebook TODAY!

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Re: [gutvol-d] Re: HandHeld & E-Books
by Gutenberg9443＠aol.com 20 May '05

20 May '05

In a message dated 5/14/2005 6:33:11 AM Mountain Daylight Time, mattsen(a)arvig.net writes: Haven't tried it myself (frankly, I've not had much luck with running Windows apps under Wine). Go to eBookWise.com. There is a long list of FAQs there. It should answer all the questions everybody was asking. I don't know anything about Wine but it probably wouldn't work. Anne Do you like to breathe? Then save the trees! Begin a personal relationship with an ebook TODAY!

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