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Hi. I'd like to volunteer for Chapter 7.

Cheers,

Harley.

You’ve brought up some very insightful points regarding the intersection of AI, copyright law, and artistic creation. The concept of “transformative use” is indeed a key factor in determining whether a work infringes on copyright or not. By altering the meaning, message, or purpose of the original ...

Redrun, I have a question and suggestion... When a reader's name changes in the database, does their index number stay the same? If so, one possible value for the ID3 tag preferred for reader is something like "librivox.org/reader/251". (That's the link to Mark Nelson's reader page.) If th...

Just for consideration, there may some readers who don't read their names in the audio, that also wouldn't want their names in the ID3 tags. In other words, doing this across the board would be seen as an improvement by some people, and a defect by other people.

Hi. Here's Section 23:

https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/mythsofnorthernlands_23_guerber_128kb.mp3

Length is 14:19

Thanks,

Harley.

Oh, a random note that books published in 1932 will be in the public domain in the U.S. on January 1st of 2028. That doesn't address the question really, but if you wait 3 and a half years the first book can be recorded by you or anyone else for Librivox.

Hi. Here's section 22, Ready for PL:

https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/mythsofnorthernlands_22_guerber_128kb.mp3

Length is 23:07

(I should have Section 23 done in the next week.)

Thanks,

Harley.

On the original topic of the thread, you might want to read the entire thread linked under "Feedback" in the FAQ, as well as the entire thread called "What if I suck?". There are hundreds of pages, literally, on this very topic. But what I really want to say: If Merriam Webster i...

Hi. I'd like to volunteer for Chapters 22 and 23, Loki and the Giants.

Thanks,

Harley.

Oh, one other quick thing to consider... Are your employees under "Work for Hire" employment contracts, for example a contract that says the company owns the copyright to their productions? If so, having them do public domain work during work hours might be a legally complicated issue.

As Availle said, any project that has multiple voices in the same production is going to take a significant amount of time to edit and do post production. That's probably not something you'll be able to fit into a "one or two hours each" schedule. Maybe a book of poems? I think having each...

Hi. Section 35 is Ready for PL:

https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/4hundredyearsoffreethought_35_putnam_128kb.mp3

Length is 23:52

Thanks,

Harley.

Hi. A corrected version of Chapter 4 is here:

https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/4hundredyearsoffreethought_04_putnam_128kb.mp3

(Length is exactly the same.)

Hopefully the punch ins don't sound too obvious.

Thanks,

Harley.

02 is PL OK . Thanks, Rita. Nicely read, as always. PL Notes 04 Thanks, Harley. Nicely read, with just a few little fixes to make it "just right". 7:00 weightiest objections to the Copernican theory . . . you say of. 10:17 were to be traced the mighty laws . . . you say treated 11:10 He w...

Also, I'd like to volunteer for section 35, Chapter 15 Geology. It seems like a good compliment to the chapter on astronomy.

Thanks,

Harley.