Re: Announcing trplayer 1.0.0: An Accessible RealMedia Player

[Janina Sajka <janina afb net>]

Hi, Matt:

Since I'm not an attorney, I can't really answer this.

I can only give my opinion as a consumer. I believe the copyright on the
web page design prevents someone else from using the same design elsewhere
and for other purposes. In my view, therefore, building a completely
different form that provides RA all of the data and sources the same
distribution channels would not be any kind of violation. I think of this
approach much like a translation into another language--which can be
achieved through proxy servers. The difference in this instance is that
the translation is to a medium more appropriate to a class of users,
rather than to a language group.

I hope this helps.

At the time we at AFB posted our form, we were in contact with RA and were
trying to get them to make their forms friendlier. They did make some
effort in this direction, but did not really listen to us, so their
efforts were only marginally better. Also, they took long enough that we
simply went ahead. After all, we had a conference scheduled, and the
Chairman of the FCC coming to talk about Sec. 255. We wanted people
everywhere to hear that.


On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Matthew Campbell wrote:

> Janina wrote:
> >PS: I think it would be useful to create a download form without all the
> >extraneous graphics for people to use. At AFB we did this some years ago
> >when we were getting ready to broadcast over the web from an AFB
> >conference. We wanted to make it easier for people to hear the speech by
> >FCC Chairman Kennard. It became one of our web sites most popular links.
> 
> Can we do that without violating RealNetworks' copyright?  I'm willing
> to do the HTML coding, but I want to make sure it's legal first.
> 
> 

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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Information Systems Research & Development
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

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