From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mta01ps.bigpond.com ([144.135.25.133]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 16Rl0A-0007nZ-00 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 21:13:02 -0500 Received: from data.home ([144.135.25.84]) by mta01ps.bigpond.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id GQ5YHC00.65Y for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 12:20:00 +1000 Received: from CPE-144-136-137-64.qld.bigpond.net.au ([144.136.137.64]) by psmam06.mailsvc.email.bigpond.com(MailRouter V3.0h 110/7834122); 19 Jan 2002 12:12:54 Received: from geoff by data.home with local-esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16Rl01-0006rX-00; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 12:12:53 +1000 Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 12:12:53 +1000 From: Geoff Shang To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: Problems with pdf files. In-Reply-To: <032b01c19eee$45245aa0$6401a8c0@alex1.va.home.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.7 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Amanda Lee wrote: > So if I have a colleague print the document and I then scan it with an OCR > program, is that illegal? Yet I technically would have displayed the > document in another form. So I also suppose it is illegal to magnify the > font on the screen so that a low vision person can read it? Godf forbid! A friend of mine said that he's seen a copyright licence for a particular PDF document that said that the person did not have the right to read the document aloud. Fair use will get killed off if we let it. Geoff.