
Not really sure if this is something Librivox can do in regards to copyright or government reports, but if we can, is there any interest? How quickly could we turn it around?
Input is welcomed. Thanks.
I agree with the comments in your post. An audio version is simply another option for readers/listeners, who may have an interest, to have access to the information, in order to come to their own independent conclusions about a current or historical event. Of course, its public domain status will be a key factor for LV (and for PG, which I may pursue).
LibriVox Objective
To make all books in the public domain available, for free, in audio format on the internet.
FWIW,Please note: Our readers are free to choose the books they wish to record. LibriVox sees itself as a library of audiobooks. Because the books we read are in the public domain, our readers and listeners should be aware that many of them are very old, and may contain language or express notions that are antiquated at best, offending at worst.
I'm not trying to read Anne's mind, but I'm assuming she means the country with which the President was accused of being in collusion could perhaps block its residents from accessing LV materials/site.
Points 1 and 3. It may be released into the PD. Government reports on the space shuttle Columbia accident, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, etc., are all PD and are all recorded for LV.I don't want to see my country ban librivox just because some people wanted read something that 1. isn't even PD, 2. it is something that could possibly cause conflict and 3. might not even be published for the public. It is a legal document, and it won't be PD for quite some time.
See other posts above for their reasons for wanting to record this.What's so important about reading this particular document anyway? Why should it be any different to read this, than another report that might have came out in 2008?