Wordsy on Librivox
Submitted by hansdekker on Sun, 2007-09-02 18:40.At wordsy.com we think Librivox is a wonderful project. If you're not in the know: at Librivox volunteers can and do post their self-recorded audiobooks that are no longer protected by the author's original copyrights.
To show our support, we recorded The Apology by Ralph Waldo Emerson for the Weekly Poetry Project.
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You sure about the copyright part? I had the impression the reason they focused on Project Gutenberg books was that copyright prohibited the recording of any recent work.
We'll see how it works out.
Good initiative though!
Ralph Waldo Emerson is hardly recent. His works are all in the public domain in the U.S.
Rat's Reading - http://reading.kingrat.biz/
I wasn't referring to Emerson in particular but to Hans's statement about circumventing copyright.
When I say 'no longer protected by the author's copyrights' I meant because the author died a long time ago. I'm not sure about the exact legalities but copyrights only last about sixty or seventy years after an author's death, depending on where you are.
Yes, the rights to one's works expires 70 years after one's death. It's 50 years for music I believe.
I misunderstood you, I assumed you meant that by recording a reading of a text you can somehow get around copyright restrictions.
Link to the reading now added in the official blog.