Small clarification: Garrett started that podcast (jointly with me and others involved) but there have been a range of narrators. I mainly stopped doing it because of several comments that people may prefer the digitisations from the Nonlinear Library.
I was sort of thinking it makes sense to have human readers only where people read their own posts.
In terms of author permission I don’t completely understand the issue. It’s on the World Wide Web, I think it’s legally free to use non commercially? And digitisation to speech is basically just another way of reading text. But it’s also important for us to have a good community so it’s probably good to get people’s consent if possible … although if NLL or you are digitising everything it might be that this consent should be in the general T&C of this forum?
“It’s on the World Wide Web, I think it’s legally free to use non commercially?”
No, AFAICT there’s not a legal distinction between stuff I post online and stuff I publish on paper, and I feel equally strongly about people republishing either without my consent.
Changing the T&Cs of the Forum (with sufficient notice that people could take down their posts) would be a valid way around this
Ok I might be wrong. Worth digging into the legal details of this. I think the issue might be “what is posting on an online forum equivalent to?”
http://loureads.com/ (very NSFW) reads content from forums onto a podcast … making me think this was similar.
I suggest that applying this T&C for new posts might be the way to go. Regardless of the legal implications it seems fair to give people advance warning that their content may be on a podcast. I’m sorry for failing to always do this in the past.
Small clarification: Garrett started that podcast (jointly with me and others involved) but there have been a range of narrators. I mainly stopped doing it because of several comments that people may prefer the digitisations from the Nonlinear Library. I was sort of thinking it makes sense to have human readers only where people read their own posts.
In terms of author permission I don’t completely understand the issue. It’s on the World Wide Web, I think it’s legally free to use non commercially? And digitisation to speech is basically just another way of reading text. But it’s also important for us to have a good community so it’s probably good to get people’s consent if possible … although if NLL or you are digitising everything it might be that this consent should be in the general T&C of this forum?
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“It’s on the World Wide Web, I think it’s legally free to use non commercially?”
No, AFAICT there’s not a legal distinction between stuff I post online and stuff I publish on paper, and I feel equally strongly about people republishing either without my consent.
Changing the T&Cs of the Forum (with sufficient notice that people could take down their posts) would be a valid way around this
Ok I might be wrong. Worth digging into the legal details of this. I think the issue might be “what is posting on an online forum equivalent to?”
http://loureads.com/ (very NSFW) reads content from forums onto a podcast … making me think this was similar.
I suggest that applying this T&C for new posts might be the way to go. Regardless of the legal implications it seems fair to give people advance warning that their content may be on a podcast. I’m sorry for failing to always do this in the past.
Thanks, I updated the post to reflect the fact that others are also narrating the podcast.