Still No Personal Book Mobile Sync?

Now as we have the GREAT discussion IF the companies should have the power to censor our thoughts. See discussions of Parler vs. Apple, Amazon, Twitter

I thinks it is on the honesty of the person itself. 

If I spend some money to a charity organization then it is my responsibility to do what Jesus said. What the organization does with the money it's in their responsibilities. I'm responsible for me, and Logos for they. But Logos is not responsible for me and the other way round.

The other thing: For the f.... Americans the whole world is theirs. No sorry, this isn't the case. Every nation has their own law. If Logos censors some content because of the © in America, then it often disrespect national laws of other countries. For example in Europe we don't have ©. We have the system of Urheberrechte. I know if you put Urheberrechte in Wikipedia and then chose english it goes to Copyright. But thats false, the two are different.  Or what is allowed to share to others is different in the law of my country, than in America. Or what is allowed to download etc. 

Logos should NOT be the censor company. In my opinion they don't have the right to do so.

Hi Fabian:

Do you know that these forums have an edit window of a few hours? You have a chance to tidy things up a bit.

Unfortunately, I don't have a solution to the issue you described, hopefully one can be found soon.

Actually, I do but few would like it.

1. Have folk sign up for a personal book compact.

“COMPACT” is not yet defined. Assume that user agrees to purchase, at cost plus, any copyrighted material found in their PBB.

2. Have each uploaded book go through an algorithm to detect substantial copyright material.

Will require FL to have a database of every work under copyright from all over the world.  Vast expense for FL or the publishers who set up that database of all copyrighted works and maintain it.

3. If no copyright infringements then allow through.

Kills all fair use items.  And how sensitive will the copyright algorithm be?  

 In the US we can criticize someone’s copyrighted work.  That derivative work might copy half the work followed by our discussion on the work. Would the algorithm toss it out?

In music we are allowed to, for our own use only, change the format of a musical recording. [From CD to MP3 for example to play on our device that is not a CD player] 

It is a little murky whether the statements forbidding us to change formats of written or eworks will hold up in court. [when for our own use only] But a work that we changed from a printed or Word Search or Accordance or Step format to a PBB ‘might be legal’ but would not pass the algorithm

4. If copyright infringements found invoke the compact which would allow Faithlife to purchase the resource from either their own stock or another supplier. Add a 20% handling fee and charge the registered credit card.

Would we be given the opportunity to not ‘purchase the resource’ – that would mean that the resource would not upload. [maybe we just uploaded it a year early as it clears copyright next year] And why is this not being done for the PBBs that upload to another computer? – Maybe keep all PBB off FL servers!

Some folks would have no problem with this - others?

I would remove the Upload option for PBB and install a SCAN for loading PBB. That way we would have full control and responsibility for our PBB. [SCAN like the function that is used to add all our PBBs loaded on to a flash drive and transferred to a second computer. FL has a SCAN function for loading FL resources to computers and mobiles they just do not let us use it on mobiles.  They transfer the file to the unit and do the equivalent of a SCAN to add the resource to the library]

FL says it wants to offer every religious book ever written but they are not interested in offering the books I am interested in as those books will not pass the community pricing nor pre pub tests.  [[I want them but only 5 or so other FL customers would also want them so they fail the community pricing and pre pub tests.  Please note that those pricing tests the keep FL in business]]  So I add them as my private PBB [and I do not share]