Wednesday, February 11, 2009

E-Book reader copyright issue

This from the WSJ: The text-to-speech (i.e. read aloud) experimental feature of Amazon's Kindle 2 bookreader is running into trouble with the Author's Guild (of Google Books copyright case fame). Why? The read-aloud feature is argued to be an audio right distinct from the literary right under copyright law.

More here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123419309890963869.html

-Ben

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