Re: Braille copyright violations

On Thu, 31 Oct 1996, Sue Medina wrote:
>

[snip]
> all their works. Most give permission if you ask. Newly-contacted
> publishers have more concern about taping books, but the LC technology
> uses a very, very slow speed that is not the same as that on retail
> taper players. The tapes have to be played on the special equipment
> provided for the blind and physically handicapped.
[snip]

The speed slowdown applied to their phonodisks(16 RPM). As I *recall* the cassette tapes were normal speed but the 4 tracks were "reversed" from the normal stereo tracks as defined by Phillips patent. Thus only LOC issued players would play these tapes.

I always wondered how the LOC was able to get around a patent that Phillips fanatically enforced with everyone else? anyone know?

charles keller <keller[_at_]ra.msstate.edu> Received on Wed Nov 06 1996 - 15:36:06 GMT