- From: David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
- Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:24:52 +0000
- To: 'wai-ig list' <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Ramón Corominas wrote: > I don't understand the objection. Is not the vídeo itself a copyrighted > material? If captions are accesible, you already have a chance to get > them in an automated way, I think... Licensing generally wouldn't allow automated capture. As an extreme example, a film in a cinema, by virtue of being accessible to sighted people is also accessible to video cameras, but using a video camera in a cinema is likely to get you thrown out and banned for life. Another example is PDF, which makes distinction between being making the text available to assistive technology and making it available for general cut and paste. The intent is, I would think, clearly that AT tools should not be usable to subvert the technical restriction on cut and paste. > >>> 4) must be able to generate a transcript from the caption data >>> automatically >> Unless this is caveated, it might produce serious objections from >> content providers, as it allows the copyrighted transcript to be >> obtained for purposes other than accessibility. > -- David Woolley Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. RFC1855 says there should be an address here, but, in a world of spam, that is no longer good advice, as archive address hiding may not work.
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