John Paczkowski

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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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  • Jim Anderson

    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.

  • Tom Lothian

    I 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.

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