Hi Shogo, You are welcome! For me, being a non-native English speaker like you, that was exactly the reason why I wanted those transcripts to exist. I find the written word much easier to follow than a fast-paced talk and I think it should become a default for influential talks in the future in order to not put non-native English speakers at a greater disadvantage than necessary. Alex's efforts with the *live captioning transcripts* <https://github.com/strangeloop/StrangeLoop2014/blob/master/transcripts/Hickey-Transducers.txt> for the most recent Strange Loop conference is certainly a step in the right direction (maybe with some embedding of slides afterwards?).
In my layman's understanding of the legal implications, my initial hunch was along the lines of Fluid Dynamics post below. Unless the speakers have signed away their rights to the conference organizers or the person filming the talk, they would be the ones to ask for permission. But really most importantly, I asked myself what the potential financial damage of having these talks appear would be to the copyright owners. And no matter who that is, I'd argue that there's none as those talks are freely distributed. Of course, if you want to know for sure, you would have to consult a lawyer, there's no other advice I can give you from a legal perspective. Which makes me wonder if there are lawyers that are willing to provide counseling for free in an open source context? For me, that's such a natural modus operandi to contribute my time in order to make something better. Does that exist for lawyers? Matthias On Wednesday, October 29, 2014 2:21:46 PM UTC+1, OHTA Shogo wrote: > > Hi > > Recently, Matthias Nehlsen graciously shared his transcripts [1] of Rich > Hickey's talks. They are pretty helpful for us, as non-native English > speaker, to get better understanding of the talks. Thank you for your great > effort, Matthias! > > So, now I'm planning to start a project translating the transcripts into > Japanese to deliver the contents to Japanese Clojure community. But before > that, I want to clear how their license is going. In his repository, > Matthias is saying he has no authority to grant a license of them. Also, on > the other hand, I saw Alex Miller (one of their right holders) allowed him > to publish the transcripts in the comment on Matthias' blog post. > > Can anyone tell me how can I take the next step? > > Thanks, > > Shogo > > [1]https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
