Discussion of set-up/future legamus.eu
Posted: Fri 27. May 2011, 10:08
The title says it all ... Let's continue the discussion we had elsewhere
Viktor, you have already gained a lot of experience for the German language part. We should expand (technically, legally, socially) to include more +70 countries and their respective languages. Would it be a good idea to set up forum subsections for the main EU languages (we already have English and German; could add French and perhaps Spanish on short notice?), with native speakers managing these parts. In this way, the forum will also be interesting for people who are not confident in writing in English. Perhaps in the further future also smaller languages (like Dutch ) can be included, but this doesn't seem highest priority to me.
And then the goal of this community. I would think: to record and issue audio books of texts that are in the public domain in EU and other +70 countries - publication date from 1923. Everything published in 1922 or earlier can be done at librivox.org - located in US (and hence following US copyright regulations). It would not make sense to do things double, and they already have a very good infrastructure and a big catalogue of pre-1923 books.
Just my 2 €-cents to start with
Viktor, you have already gained a lot of experience for the German language part. We should expand (technically, legally, socially) to include more +70 countries and their respective languages. Would it be a good idea to set up forum subsections for the main EU languages (we already have English and German; could add French and perhaps Spanish on short notice?), with native speakers managing these parts. In this way, the forum will also be interesting for people who are not confident in writing in English. Perhaps in the further future also smaller languages (like Dutch ) can be included, but this doesn't seem highest priority to me.
And then the goal of this community. I would think: to record and issue audio books of texts that are in the public domain in EU and other +70 countries - publication date from 1923. Everything published in 1922 or earlier can be done at librivox.org - located in US (and hence following US copyright regulations). It would not make sense to do things double, and they already have a very good infrastructure and a big catalogue of pre-1923 books.
Just my 2 €-cents to start with