by John Paczkowski
Posted on February 11, 2009 at 10:09 AM PT
They don’t have the right to read a book out loud. That’s an audio right, which is derivative under copyright law.”
– Paul Aiken, executive director of the Authors Guild, on Kindle 2’s text-to-speech feature
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John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper. Read more »
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Seriously?
Are you the founding member of the new RIAA for books?
Amazon comes up with a new way for people to PAY you for your copyrighted material, and you turn around and ankle-bite them?
It’s the same technology as screen reading software. It’s not a performance of the book.
You should sue Microsoft for helping blind people.
In fact, you’d better sue the blind people too, just to be on the safe side.
Posted by Jim Anderson at February 11th, 2009 at 11:36 amI know what he was trying to say but he said it all wrong. Maybe he should have just put out a written statement instead of trying to speak it.
Posted by Tom Lothian at February 11th, 2009 at 12:27 pm